TY - JOUR
T1 - MRI of brachial plexopathies
AU - Sureka, J.
AU - Cherian, Rekha aley
AU - Alexander, M.
AU - Thomas, B. P.
PY - 2009/2/1
Y1 - 2009/2/1
N2 - Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become the primary imaging technique in the evaluation of brachial plexus pathology, and plays an important role in the identification, localization, and characterization of the cause. Improvements in MRI technique have helped in detecting changes in the signal intensity of nerves, subtle enhancement, and in detecting perineural pathology, thereby refining the differential diagnosis. The present review of the visualization of brachial plexus abnormalities using MRI is based on a review of 26 cases. The causes include trauma and a spectrum of non-traumatic causes, such as acute idiopathic/viral plexitis, metastases, immune-mediated plexitis, and mass lesions compressing the brachial plexus.
AB - Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become the primary imaging technique in the evaluation of brachial plexus pathology, and plays an important role in the identification, localization, and characterization of the cause. Improvements in MRI technique have helped in detecting changes in the signal intensity of nerves, subtle enhancement, and in detecting perineural pathology, thereby refining the differential diagnosis. The present review of the visualization of brachial plexus abnormalities using MRI is based on a review of 26 cases. The causes include trauma and a spectrum of non-traumatic causes, such as acute idiopathic/viral plexitis, metastases, immune-mediated plexitis, and mass lesions compressing the brachial plexus.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.crad.2008.08.011
DO - 10.1016/j.crad.2008.08.011
M3 - Review article
C2 - 19103352
AN - SCOPUS:57649149285
SN - 0009-9260
VL - 64
SP - 208
EP - 218
JO - Clinical Radiology
JF - Clinical Radiology
IS - 2
ER -