[Neurovascular compression syndroms of the shoulder girdle (author's transl)].
Shoulder girdle compression syndroms appear intermittently and according to body carriage. Very seldom they are caused by neck ribs, mostly by a costoclavicular narrowness. Important for the symptoms is the nerval plexus compression, for diagnostic reasons the blood vessel compression. Essential are provocating tests, subclavia phonogramms and in doubtful cases, angiography. Oszillo- and sonography often fail, EMG and nerval conductive measurement are only of differential diagnostik importance. In all together 120 healthy persons compression was shown phonographically, phlebographically and manometrically in 58--88%. Only the symptomatic and distinct compression are abnormal. Physiotherapy should be applied, only operative decompression is a causal treatment. The transaxilar resection of the first rib with scalenotomy and eventually also resection of a neck rib is by fat better than any other method. This is a report of 112 operated patients.
D000792:Angiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012737:Sex Factors; D012782:Shoulder; D013900:Thoracic Nerves
Neurovaskuläre Kompressionssyndrome im Schultergürtelbereich.