title: Immune brachial plexus neuropathy: suggestive evidence for an inflammatory-immune pathogenesis.
abstract: We report brachial plexus biopsy findings from two Australian and two American patients with brachial plexus neuropathy. There were florid multifocal mononuclear inflammatory cell infiltrates. Present evidence suggests that these brachial neuropathies have an immune basis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Suarez
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Giannini
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Bosch
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Barohn
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wodak
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ebeling
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: McKeever
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Bromberg
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Dyck
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001315:Australia; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000473:pathology; D001706:Biopsy; D001917:Brachial Plexus / Q000473:pathology*; D020968:Brachial Plexus Neuritis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009413:Nerve Fibers, Myelinated / Q000473:pathology; D010146:Pain; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000473:pathology; D014481:United States