Immune brachial plexus neuropathy: suggestive evidence for an inflammatory-immune pathogenesis.
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.
Suarez
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GA
Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Giannini
C
C
Bosch
E P
EP
Barohn
R J
RJ
Wodak
J
J
Ebeling
P
P
Anderson
R
R
McKeever
P E
PE
Bromberg
M B
MB
Dyck
P J
PJ
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