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Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 88:F185-F189 doi:10.1136/fn.88.3.F185
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Congenital brachial palsy: incidence, causes, and outcome in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland

Table 6

Details of outcome

Number Full recovery Partial recovery No recovery
Notes: Completed questionnaires = 281. Insufficient information on outcome or ineligible cases = 5. Total number of eligible of cases = 276. (Information on the mode of delivery was missing in two fully recovered and five partially recovered infants). The sum of ventouse and forceps deliveries exceeds the number of infants delivered by assisted delivery because some proceeded from ventouse to forceps.
*Information on the extent of the lesion was missing in two cases.
All infants 276 143 127 6
Macrosomia 146 65 78 3
Shoulder dystocia 179 84 90 5
Spontaneous vertex  delivery 156 80 74 2
Breech 9 4 3 2
Assisted delivery 101 55 44 2
Ventouse 80 40 39 1
Forceps 37 24 12 1
Caesarean section 3 2 1 0
Groups I and II 255* 143 112 0
Groups III and IV 19* 0 13 6
Associated injuries 42 20 17 5
Age at assessment (weeks) Range 1–70 1–75 19–33
Median 18 26 27

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