Immune brachial plexus neuropathy: suggestive evidence for an inflammatory-immune pathogenesis

G A Suarez; C Giannini; E P Bosch; R J Barohn; J Wodak; P Ebeling; R Anderson; P E McKeever; M B Bromberg; P J Dyck

doi:10.1212/wnl.46.2.559

Immune brachial plexus neuropathy: suggestive evidence for an inflammatory-immune pathogenesis

Neurology. 1996 Feb;46(2):559-61. doi: 10.1212/wnl.46.2.559.

Authors

G A Suarez¹, C Giannini, E P Bosch, R J Barohn, J Wodak, P Ebeling, R Anderson, P E McKeever, M B Bromberg, P J Dyck

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.

PMID: 8614534
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.46.2.559

Abstract

We report brachial plexus biopsy findings from two Australian and two American patients with brachial plexus neuropathy. There were florid multifocal mononuclear inflammatory cell infiltrates. Present evidence suggests that these brachial neuropathies have an immune basis.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Australia
B-Lymphocytes / pathology
Biopsy
Brachial Plexus / pathology*
Brachial Plexus Neuritis / pathology*
Brachial Plexus Neuritis / physiopathology
Female
Humans
Inflammation
Male
Middle Aged
Nerve Fibers, Myelinated / pathology
Pain
T-Lymphocytes / pathology
United States

Grants and funding

14304/PHS HHS/United States