title: Plain radiography in the evaluation of cervicobrachial neuralgia.
abstract: Standard radiography is indispensable to the initial evaluation of cervicobrachial neuralgia. Its main purpose is not to detect a nucleus pulposus herniation or a spondylarthrosis responsible for the neuralgia, but to exclude a possible malignancy. In some cases standard radiography points out to a less frequent cause, such as constitutional stenosis of intervertebral foramina not necessarily associated with a narrow vertebral canal.
authors.affiliation: Département de Neuroradiologie et de Radiologie ostéo-articulaire, Hôpital Jean-Minjoz, Besançon, France.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Bonneville
mesh_terms: D020968:Brachial Plexus Neuritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D011859:Radiography