BRACHIAL NEURITIS

Herpes and Brachial Neuritis

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...

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.

Kiloh-Nevin syndrome: a compression neuropathy or brachial plexus neuritis?

Kiloh-Nevin syndrome was first described in 1948 by Parsonage and Turner and further defined in 1952 by Kiloh and Nevin. The aetiology is highly debated. Two common causes of Kiloh-Nevin syndrome are compression neuropathy and brachial plexus neuritis. In this study the results in six patients who were treated operatively and were evaluated after a mean follow-up of 42 months (range: 24 to 60),...

Postpartum Idiopathic Brachial Neuritis in a Sport Medicine Physician.

Idiopathic brachial neuritis is a distinctive condition that occurs most often in healthy individuals. It characteristically starts with an acute unilateral shoulder pain followed by a complex of symptoms, including weakness, paresthesias, and numbness. The cause of this syndrome is unknown and difficult to diagnose in the initial phase but may occur postsurgery, postinfection, posttrauma, or p...