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An MRI study on the relations between muscle atrophy, shoulder function and glenohumeral deformity in shoulders of children with obstetric brachial plexus injury

Valerie M van Gelein Vitringa1, Ed O van Kooten2, Richard T Jaspers3, Margriet G Mullender1, Mirjam H van Doorn-Loogman4 and Johannes A van der Sluijs1*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, VU medical center, 1007 MB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2 Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, VU medical center, 1007 MB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

3 Research Institute MOVE, Faculty of Human Movement Science, VU University Amsterdam, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

4 Department of Rehabilitation, VU Medical Center, 1007 MB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2009, 4:9 doi:10.1186/1749-7221-4-9


The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.jbppni.com/content/4/1/9


Received:2 July 2009
Accepted:8 July 2009
Published:8 July 2009

© 2009 van Gelein Vitringa et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Correction

After publication of this work [1], we noted that we inadvertently failed to include the complete list of all co-authors. The full list of authors has now been added and the Authors' contributions and Competing interests sections modified accordingly.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Authors' contributions

VMvGV, RTJ and JAvdS did design, data acquisition, analysis, and writing. EOvK MM and MHVD revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content. All authors approved the final version.

References

  1. van Gelein Vitringa VM, van Kooten EO, Mullender MG, van Doorn-Loogman MH, Sluijs JA: An MRI study on the relations between muscle atrophy, shoulder function and glenohumeral deformity in shoulders of children with obstetric brachial plexus injury.

    J Brachial Plex Peripher Nerve Inj 2009, 4:5. PubMed Abstract | BioMed Central Full Text | PubMed Central Full Text OpenURL