Brachial Plexus
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This document describes several case studies of patients presenting with various brachial plexus injuries and conditions, including avulsion injuries in a 26-year-old man after a motorcycle crash, a stretching injury in a 35-year-old man, a mixed brachial plexopathy in a 65-year-old man, and a small Pancoast's tumor in a 60-year-old woman. It also mentions cases of schwannoma, breast cancer metastases, lipoma, traumatic pseudoaneurysm, effects of breast cancer treatment, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
Brachial Plexus
- 1. Copyright 息 2006 by the American Roentgen Ray Society Castillo, M. Am. J. Roentgenol. 2005;185:S196-S204 --Diagram illustrates basic anatomy of brachial plexus
- 2. - -Avulsion injuries in 26-year-old man with weakness and pain in upper extremity after motorcycle crash
- 3. --Avulsion injuries in 26-year-old man
- 4. --Avulsion injuries in 26-year-old man
- 5. -- Stretching ("burning") injury of right brachial plexus in 35-year-old man
- 6. --65-year-old man presenting with left- sided mixed (i.e., motor and sensory) brachial plexopathy of 2 months' duration
- 7. --Small left Pancoast's tumor in 60-year-old woman
- 9. --Metastases from breast carcinoma in 58-year-old woman
- 10. --Lipoma in 44-year-old woman
- 11. --Lipoma in 44-year-old woman
- 12. - - Traumatic pseudoaneurysm in subclavian artery of 38-year-old man
- 13. --Traumatic pseudoaneurysm in subclavian artery of 38-year-old man
- 14. 57-year-old woman who had undergone surgery and irradiation for treatment of left- sided breast carcinoma and was doing well until about 7 months after termination of radiation therapy, when she developed weakness and pain in left upper extremity
- 15. Coronal fat-suppressed T2-weighted image shows mild thickening and increased signal in trunks for left brachial plexus in 45-year- old man who presented with sudden onset of weakness in ipsilateral upper extremity