Brachial Plexus Injuries Flashcards
What nerve roots are involved in erb’s palsy
C5-6
Classic manifestation of a stinger
Upper trunk injury - waiter’s tip
Klumpke’s palsy involves what nerve roots
C8-T1
Klumpkes palsy presentation
Claw hand deformity, lumbrical weakness and wasting of hand muscles
What does vascular thoracic outlet syndrome involve
Subclavian artery and vein and axillary vein
What test is used to test for tos
Adsons maneuver
What motion exacerbates pain of neuralgic amyotrophy
Abduction and rotation
Most common muscles affected in neuralgic amyotrophy are innervated by what nerve roots
C5,6
Pancoast tumor affects what part of brachial plexus
Lower trunk
Clinical presentation of pancoast tumor
Horners syndrome
Most common nerve roots that experience nerve root avulsion
C8-T1
Electrodiagnostic finding of nerve root avulsion in CMAP and SNAP
Absent CMAP and SNAP
Most common nerve involved in neuralgia amyotrophy
Suprascapular nerve