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“Drooping shoulder” —Nontraumatic causes of glenohumeral subluxation

✍ Scribed by Anna S. Lev-Toaff; David Karasick; Vijay Madan Rao

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1984
Tongue: English
Weight: 604 KB
Volume: 12
Category: Article
ISSN: 0364-2348
DOI: 10.1007/bf00373173

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✦ Synopsis

Nontraumatic glenohumeral subluxation can occur in patients with hemiplegia or brachial plexus involvement by tumor. Two cases of inferior subluxation of the humeral head are presented and nontraumatic etiologies of the "drooping shoulder" are discussed.

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