brachial plexus
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MRI Study of Brachial Plexus with anatomyTRANSCRIPT
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