Shoulder Arthrodesis versus Upper Trapezius Transfer for Traumatic Brachial Plexus Injury: A Proportional Meta-Analysis

Table 2

Patterns of brachial plexus injury for the study cohort.

	C5	C5-C6	C5–C7	C5–C8	C8–T1	C5–T1	Total
Shoulder arthrodesis	1 (1%)	36 (24%)	28 (19%)	0 (0%)	2 (1%)	81 (55%)	148
Upper trapezius transfer	0 (0%)	26 (46%)	15 (27%)	4 (7%)	0 (0%)	11 (20%)	56
Total	1 (0.5%)	62 (30.4%)	43 (21.1%)	4 (2.0%)	2 (1.0%)	92 (45.0%)	204

Patterns of brachial plexus injury was available for 204 out of 374 patients in this meta-analysis.