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Identifier: nervousmentaldis00chu (find matches)
Title: Nervous and mental diseases
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Church, Archibald, b. 1861 Peterson, Frederick, 1859-1938, joint author
Subjects: Nervous system Mental illness
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, W.B. Saunders company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Fig. 102a.—Partial paralysis of the right serratus magnus. spiratory expansion on the same side, but causes no absolute motor loss.The paralysis of the serratus causes a peculiar and characteristic de-formity. Attempts to put the arm forward cause the posterior borderof the scapula to widely wing out from the chest, so that a deep recessis formed behind the shoulder-blade. The upper portion of the bonemoves outward and the lower angle toward the spine. As the nerve is almost purely motor, the only sensory disturhaTweis neuralgic pain in the neck and shoulder in neuritic cases. The prog-nosis in injury to the posterior thoracic is comparatively less favorablethan in other spinal nerves. A serratus paralysis is always of long dura-tion and often permanent, even when there is every reason to believethat the condition has arisen from a simple pressure neuritis. In cases f y^ ^.■^ TevUitjumtnl hrhjn I <
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