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Does preoperative abduction value affect functional outcome of combined muscle transfer and release procedures in obstetrical palsy patients with shoulder involvement?

Atakan Aydin email, Turker Ozkan email and Defne Onel email

Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey

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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2004, 5:25doi:10.1186/1471-2474-5-25

Published: 3 August 2004

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Preoperative and postoperative range motion degrees and Mallet scores of the patients. Patients with bold numbers are in Group II with preoperative abduction values ≥ 90° and the others are in Group I with preoperative abduction values < 90° (Abd Deg: abduction degree, Ex. Rot. Deg: external rotation degree). Passive range of motion degrees are in parenthesis.

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