brachial plexusinjuryThe brachial plexus is a collection of peripheral nerves, the complexity of which dictates slow, unpredictable and sometimes confused recovery after injury; surgical repair should therefore form part of an integrated overall plan for repair of the limb. This may also include ...
Traction injury due toexcessive lateral neck flexiontowards the contralateral side, or excessive shoulder depression, resulting in violent stretching +/- tearing of the upper portion of the brachial plexus Causes The classical cause is a traction injury duringdifficult or obstructed childbirth, such as ...
Pathology Although the termbrachial plexus injuryis consistently used, the major disorder often involves the nerverootsthat supply the plexus, particularly at the site where the roots form the trunks of the plexus (a similar site is observed in “stretch” injuries to brachial “plexus” in adults...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook (redirected frombrachial palsy) Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia Related to brachial palsy:Erb's palsy,brachial plexus,Shoulder dystocia pal·sy (pôl′zē) n.pl.pal·sies 1.Complete or partial muscle paralysis, often accompanied by loss of sensation and uncontrollable...
pathology of the brachial plexus: It demonstrates the location of the nerve damage (crucial for optimal treatment planning), depicts the nerve continuity (with or without neuroma formation), or may show a completely disrupted/avulsed nerve, thereby aiding in nerve-injury grading for preoperative ...
Related to brachial:brachial plexus,brachial artery,Brachial plexus injury,brachial neuritis [bra´ke-al] pertaining to theupperlimb. brachial plexusa nerve plexus partly in the neck and partly in the axilla, originating from the ventral branches of the last four cervical spinal nerves and most ...
A total of 41 patients with clinically suspected brachial plexus pathology or tumors in its region were studied. A normal anatomy was found in 12 patients. Pathologic entities included: traumatic nerve-root avulsion (n=2), hematoma (n=1), postoperative changes after scalenotomy (n=2), ...
Ultrasonography has previously been reported for use in the evaluation of compressive or traumatic peripheral nerve pathology and for its utility in preoperative mapping. However, these studies were not performed in infants, and they were not focused on the brachial plexus. The authors report a case...
The structures most commonly affected in adults with a brachial plexus injury (BPI) are the spinal nerve roots1. Dedicated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI, including imaging in multiple planes with different sequences) is the best non-invasive test for diagnosing root injury although it misclassifie...
:man(31.21±13.93)mm,woman(37.36±9.93)mm.Conclusion The sexual diversity of the length of roots,trunks and cords is obvious except C4,C6,T2 and medial and posterior cords.Thus,the great attention should be paied to clinical anesthesia and operational treatment of brachial plexus nerve injury....