Brachial plexopathy is a type of peripheral neuropathy. Injuries to the brachial plexus can be classified according to their severity, ranging from neuropraxia, the mildest form, to axonotmesis and neurotmesis, the most severe forms. The causes of brachial plexopathy include traumatic and non-traumatic injuries. Because the brachial plexus can sustain various types of injuries, different imagin...

OBJECTIVE This is a retrospective review of 22 surgically treated benign and malignant tumors of brachial plexus region to describe clinical presentation, the characteristics of brachial plexus tumor and clinical outcomes with a literature review. METHODS Twenty-one patients with consecutive 22 surgeries for primary brachial plexus tumors were enrolled between February 2002 and November 2011 ...

Comment on 'Capnography as an aid in localizing the phrenic nerve in brachial plexus surgery. Technical note' Bhagat H, Agarwal A, Sharma MSJournal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2008, 3:14 (22 May 2008).

Neurologic signs and symptoms of brachial plexopathy may be subtle or confusing, making clinical localization of disease along the length of the brachial plexus difficult. To determine the most direct radiographic approach to diagnosing and anatomically delineating the cause of brachial plexopathy, we reviewed the clinical and radiographic records of 43 patients presenting with signs and sympto...

Response to comments on 'Capnography as an aid in localizing the phrenic nerve in brachial plexus surgery. Technical note' Bhagat H, Agarwal A, Sharma MS Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2008, 3:14 (22 May 2008)

BACKGROUND The diagnosis and validation of thoracic outlet syndrome/brachial plexopathy (TOS) remains a difficult challenge for surgeons, neurologists, and radiologists. This is due to the fact that the responses of standard elevated arm stress tests can be considered somewhat subjective and can vary. Therefore, non-vascular TOS cases are presently diagnosed clinically, and any objective diagno...

The brachial plexus is a complex anatomical structure that links the cervical spine with muscles and dermatomes of the arm. An expert neurodiagnostic system, PlexusDx, has been developed to assist in the diagnosis of brachial plexus legions. This is part of a larger neuro-diagnostic system called Neurobridge. Benchmarks for lesions of the plexus were created and tested against diagnoses of vari...