Adv Neonatal Care. 2005;5(4):181-189. Kathleen Benjamin, RNC, MS, NNP, The Children's Hospital, Denver, Colo. Shoulder position in relationship to maternal bony pelvis structures. Note the ...
About one in 1,000 children are born with brachial plexus birth injury (BPBI), upper extremity weakness or paralysis resulting from trauma to the brachial plexus nerves during childbirth.
Macrophages enter to clear the resulting debris. The nerve distal to the injury degenerates in a process known as Wallerian degeneration. [15] A less severe degree of degeneration also occurs in ...