Electrical impedance myography for discriminating traumaticperipheral nerveinjury in the upper extremity

Traumatic peripheral nerve injury (TPNI) is common in clinical practice, where more than 5% of patients are annually admitted to a level-one trauma center with concurrent TPNI (Robinson, 2004; Taylor et al., 2008). Typically seen in young adult men, TPNI occurs after a variety of traumatic events, including penetrating injury, crush, stretch, and ischemia (William, 2008). Severe nerve injury can have devastating effects on the quality of a patient's life. The classic symptoms of TPNI are sensory and motor function defects, which can cause full paralysis of the affected extremity or refractory neuropathic pain (Houdek and Shin, 2015).

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