Brachial neuritis following a corticosteroid injection

Brachial plexus neuritis following HPV vaccination.

We present a 19-year-old girl who developed a left brachial plexus neuritis following vaccination with a quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. Post-vaccination brachial plexus neuritis is a rare event. Nevertheless, this first case warrants careful attention in view of the large vaccination campaigns in young adolescents being launched all over the world.

Herpes and Brachial Neuritis

Herpes zoster following intra-articular corticosteroid injection.

Localized herpes zoster following intra-articular corticosteroid injection is remarkable. We describe an 80-year-old woman with severe osteoarthritis that received an intra-articular injection of 80 mg methylprednisolone in her knee, followed 1 day later by the appearance of linear unilateral vesicles and bullae on her leg in a dermatomal distribution adjacent to the injection site. The roofs o...

Idiopathic brachial neuritis in children.

Curr Pediatr Res 2017 Volume 21 Issue 2 233 cause of pure monoplegia. A variety of disorders affect the brachial plexus and the cervical radicals inside the cervical canal such as trauma, inflammation, vasculitis or malignancies [1-3]. Pain followed by weakness is a feature of either spinal cord compression or plexitis. In cord lesions the symptoms depend on the degree of cord impingement and d...

Treatment of leprous neuritis by neurolysis combined with perineural corticosteroid injection.

A study on leprous neuritis, involving the ulnar nerve, was carried out on 39 patients. The evaluation of nerve function was done before and after treatment by a score chart. Patients were divided into two groups. Group A (21 patients) was subjected to neurolysis only, and group B (18 patients) were given the combined treatment of neurolysis and perineural corticosteroid injection at the same t...