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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
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Upper Extremity





- Discussion:
    - upper extremities are involved in as many as two-thirds of pts who
          have peripheral neuropathy, but the involvement tends to be milder
          & to become clinically symptomatic at later age than does
          involvement of the lower extremities;
    - intrinsic-minus hands develop with decreased stability;



Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.