Teaching neuroimages: swollen T1 nerve root in neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome.
case_report · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 23733557.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1212/WNL.0b013e318295d687 and PMC identifier 3716357.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
A 17-year-old girl without any history of considerable trauma or previous disease was admitted with weakness and wasting in the right forearm and hand, more marked on the thenar eminence (figure). EMG revealed unrecordable medial antebrachial cutaneous sensory and low-amplitude median motor responses (recorded from thenar muscles) along with chronic neurogenic changes in the hand muscles. MRI showed a fusiform focal expansion of the right T1 root (figure). Neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome (NTOS) was diagnosed and surgically decompressed.<sup>1</sup>
Medical subject headings
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Anatomy
- thoracic spine