Lindley B Wall, Janith K Mills, Kenneth Leveno, Gregory Jackson, Lesley C Wheeler, Scott N Oishi, Marybeth Ezaki
OBJECTIVE: To report the incidence of neonatal brachial plexus palsy with and without ipsilateral clavicle fracture in a population of newborns and to compare the prognosis between these subgroups. METHODS: This was a retrospective review of 3,739 clavicle fractures and 1,291 brachial plexus palsies in neonates over a 24-year period from a geographically defined health care system with reference to county-wide population data. RESULTS: A referral clinic for children with brachial plexus palsies evaluated 1,383 neonates, of whom 320 also had ipsilateral clavicular fracture...
June 2014: Obstetrics and Gynecology