A hybrid technique of trapezius muscle transfer for a flail shoulder in late brachial plexus injuries

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Plast Surg 2018; 51(03): 336-337
DOI: 10.4103/ijps.IJPS_170_18

Letters to Editor

Association of Plastic Surgeons of India

Akhil Garg

Department of Plastic Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

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K. S. Ajai

Department of Plastic Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

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Satyaswarup Tripathy

Department of Plastic Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

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Nirmal Raj Gopinathan

¹Department of Orthopedics, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

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Ramesh Kumar Sharma

¹Department of Orthopedics, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

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