Flores-Bocanegra DI, Hernández-Aldama MA, Ramos-Pacheco VH, Vega- Gutiérrez EA, Guerrero-Avendaño GM

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

The brachial plexus is a network of nerves extending from C4 to T1, forming trunks, fasciculi, and terminal branches; it has been studied since Ancient Greece. In modern times, its importance was obstetric, due to lesions in products of forceps deliveries, to then identify the importance of traumatic and degenerative lesions to it, which have a low incidence. There are various image studies which can be used to study it; however, magnetic resonance has the advantage of being non-invasive and permitting, through tissue contrast, accurate definition of nerve roots and the different disorders.
Objetive: study disorders of the brachial plexus using magnetic resonance.
Material and Method: we reviewed 30 electronic files of patients with alterations of the brachial plexus, who underwent protocol for brachial plexus, in the period from March 2012 to May 2016, excluding 5 patients whose studies were normal.
Results: the most widely affected population are persons in their sixth decade of life, with compression the leading cause of compromise, followed by elongation of the plexus and tumoral lesions, in particular schwannoma; finally, radicular and disc compression (primarily degenerative phenomena).
Conclusion: the study, using magnetic resonance, of disorders of the brachial plexus helps to easily identify the structures involved.

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