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Postsurgical Idiopathic Brachial Neuritis Muscle & Nerve 17:320-324994., Malamut,R.I.,et al, 1994 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract Idiopathic brachial neuritis(IBN)is a well-recognized clinical syndrome characterized by brachial pain followed by a patchy amyotrophy of muscles in the shoulder girdle and arm innervated by individual branches of the brachial plexus.Postsurgical IBN has not been widely recognized since Parsonage and Turner's original description in which 10%of patients had antecedent surgery.We present 6 patients who 1-13 days postoperatively developed signs and symptoms which met the clinical and electrophysiologic criteria for IBN.Postsurgical neuralgic amyotrophy is an under-recognized clinical entity which in most cases is ascribed to brachial plexus stretch injuries occurring during anesthesia.Early recognition of this condition may present unnecessary surgical exploration and allow for a more accurate prediction of functional recovery.

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