This document describes several case studies of patients presenting with various brachial plexus injuries and conditions, including avulsion injuries in a 26-year-old man after a motorcycle crash, a stretching injury in a 35-year-old man, a mixed brachial plexopathy in a 65-year-old man, and a small Pancoast's tumor in a 60-year-old woman. It also mentions cases of schwannoma, breast cancer metastases, lipoma, traumatic pseudoaneurysm, effects of breast cancer treatment, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

1. Copyright © 2006 by the American Roentgen Ray Society
Castillo, M. Am. J. Roentgenol. 2005;185:S196-S204
--Diagram illustrates basic anatomy of brachial plexus

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-Avulsion injuries in 26-year-old man
with weakness and pain in upper
extremity after motorcycle crash

3. --Avulsion injuries in 26-year-old
man

4. --Avulsion injuries in 26-year-old
man

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Stretching ("burning") injury of right
brachial plexus in 35-year-old man

6. --65-year-old man presenting with left-
sided mixed (i.e., motor and sensory)
brachial plexopathy of 2 months' duration

7. --Small left Pancoast's tumor in 60-year-old
woman

8. --Schwannoma in 45-year-old
woman

9. --Metastases from breast
carcinoma in 58-year-old woman

10. --Lipoma in 44-year-old woman

11. --Lipoma in 44-year-old woman

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Traumatic pseudoaneurysm in
subclavian artery of 38-year-old man

13. --Traumatic pseudoaneurysm in
subclavian artery of 38-year-old man

14. 57-year-old woman who had undergone
surgery and irradiation for treatment of left-
sided breast carcinoma and was doing well
until about 7 months after termination of
radiation therapy, when she developed
weakness and pain in left upper extremity

15. Coronal fat-suppressed T2-weighted image
shows mild thickening and increased signal
in trunks for left brachial plexus in 45-year-
old man who presented with sudden onset
of weakness in ipsilateral upper extremity

16. --Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in
18-year-old woman