brachial plexus

Copyright © 2006 by the American Roentgen Ray Society

Castillo, M. Am. J. Roentgenol. 2005;185:S196-S204

--Diagram illustrates basic anatomy of brachial plexus

- -Avulsion injuries in

26-year-old man with weakness and pain in upper extremity after

motorcycle crash

--Avulsion injuries in 26-year-old man

--Avulsion injuries in 26-year-old man

-- Stretching ("burning") injury of right brachial plexus in 35-year-

old man

--65-year-old man presenting with left-sided mixed (i.e., motor and sensory) brachial plexopathy of 2

months' duration

--Small left Pancoast's tumor in 60-year-old woman

--Schwannoma in 45-year-old woman

--Metastases from breast carcinoma in 58-year-old

woman

--Lipoma in 44-year-old woman

--Lipoma in 44-year-old woman

- -Traumatic

pseudoaneurysm in subclavian artery of 38-year-old man

--Traumatic pseudoaneurysm in subclavian artery of 38-year-old

man

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

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

--Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in 18-year-old woman