Table 3.
Patient No. | Age Gender |
Neurologic Injury | Positioning | Diagnosis to Specialist Evaluation (mo) | Follow-Up (mo) | Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Electrodiagnostic Studies | Clinical Course |
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1 | 44F | Brachial pan-plexopathy | Prone | 12 | 3 | Diffuse brachial plexopathy with greatest involvement of lower trunk | ||
2 | 12 | Chronic patchy pan-brachial plexopathy, most affecting ulnar nerve innervated muscles | Improvement in shoulder and elbow function, poor hand function, continued dysesthesias to fingertips | |||||
2 | 57M | Brachial pan-plexopathy | Supine | 7 | 2 | Severe brachial pan-plexopathy | Minimal shoulder function | |
4 | 6 | Asymmetric decrease bulk of multiple muscles around left chest wall and shoulder in varying nerve distributions with chronic denervation changes. | Fibrillation potentials in a patchy distribution, severe left brachial pan-plexopathy | Shoulder abduction with deltoid 3/5 | ||||
5 | 12 | Severe diffuse brachial plexopathy, interval reinnervation of proximal muscles | Deltoid 4+, Biceps/Brachialis 1/5, Triceps 2/5 | |||||
3 | 37M | Brachial pan-plexopathy | Prone | 6 | 1 | Thickening and enhancements of roots and trunks consistent with brachial plexitis, no structural abnormality | ||
7 | 68M | Incomplete bilateral brachial plexopathy | Supine | 12 | 12 | Incomplete bilateral brachial pan-plexopathy affecting posterior cord and median and ulnar nerves | ||
8 | 27F | Lower trunk plexopathy | Supine | 12 | 12 | Lower trunk plexopathy | ||
9 | 53M | Lower trunk plexopathy | Prone | 4 | 4 | Patchy lower trunk plexopathy affected median, posterior interosseous, and ulnar nerves | ||
10 | 44M | Radial mononeuropathy | Lateral Decubitus | 3 | 3 | Severe right radial mononeuropathy arising proximal to branch of triceps with some reinnervation to the triceps | No finger or wrist extension | |
11 | 59M | Bilateral ulnar neuropathy resolved on left side after 6 months, persistent on right | Supine | 28 | 28 | Normal caliber and signal intensity of the right ulnar nerve | Right severe ulnar neuropathy at or about the elbow | Dense numbness and wasting of right hand |