TY - BOOK AU - Yasser Mohamed Yahia Mohamed Elmallawani AU - Ahmed Mamdouh Doheim , AU - Yehia Nour Eldin Tarraf , TI - Evaluation of latissmus dorsi transfer and subscapularis sliding in children with obstetric brachial plexus palsy / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Yasser Mohamed Yahia Mohamed Elmallawani , KW - Brachial plexus palsy KW - Latissmus dorsi transfer KW - Subscapularis sliding N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Orthopaedic Surgery; Issued also as CD N2 - Secondary surgical intervention is done to treat internal rotation contracture and resultant glenohumeral deformity. There are several operation done to release internal rotation contracture including: anterior capsular release, Z-plasty lengthening of the subscapularis tendon with or without transfer of muscles for external rotation; pectoralis major release with transfer of the latissimus and teres major as advocated by Hoffer and colleagues; subscapularis slide with and without a latissimus transfer as originally described by Carlioz and Brahimi and recommended by Gilbert et al; , arthroscopic release of the internal rotation contracture with or without latissimus transfer and rotational osteotomy of the humerus UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -