Malignant brachial plexopathy: A pictorial essay of MRI findings

For imaging, the brachial plexus is a technically and anatomically challenging region of the peripheral nervous system. MRI has a central role in the identification and accurate characterization of malignant lesions arising here, as also in defining their extent and the status of the adjacent struct...

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Autores principales: Iyer, Veena R, Sanghvi, Darshana A, Merchant, Nikhil
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Musculoskeletal
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21423902
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.73543
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author Iyer, Veena R
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description For imaging, the brachial plexus is a technically and anatomically challenging region of the peripheral nervous system. MRI has a central role in the identification and accurate characterization of malignant lesions arising here, as also in defining their extent and the status of the adjacent structures. The purpose of this pictorial essay is to describe the MRI features of primary and secondary malignant brachial plexopathies and radiation-induced brachial nerve damage.
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spelling pubmed-30566242011-03-18 Malignant brachial plexopathy: A pictorial essay of MRI findings Iyer, Veena R Sanghvi, Darshana A Merchant, Nikhil Indian J Radiol Imaging Musculoskeletal For imaging, the brachial plexus is a technically and anatomically challenging region of the peripheral nervous system. MRI has a central role in the identification and accurate characterization of malignant lesions arising here, as also in defining their extent and the status of the adjacent structures. The purpose of this pictorial essay is to describe the MRI features of primary and secondary malignant brachial plexopathies and radiation-induced brachial nerve damage. Medknow Publications 2010-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3056624/ /pubmed/21423902 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.73543 Text en © Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Iyer, Veena R
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Malignant brachial plexopathy: A pictorial essay of MRI findings
title Malignant brachial plexopathy: A pictorial essay of MRI findings
title_full Malignant brachial plexopathy: A pictorial essay of MRI findings
title_fullStr Malignant brachial plexopathy: A pictorial essay of MRI findings
title_full_unstemmed Malignant brachial plexopathy: A pictorial essay of MRI findings
title_short Malignant brachial plexopathy: A pictorial essay of MRI findings
title_sort malignant brachial plexopathy: a pictorial essay of mri findings
topic Musculoskeletal
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21423902
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.73543
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