title: Injury to the brachial plexus by a fragment of bone after fracture of the clavicle.
abstract: Clavicular fractures are occasionally responsible for lesions of the brachial plexus. The symptoms are usually delayed and due to compression by hypertrophic callus, nonunion or a subclavian pseudoaneurysm. We describe a patient in whom a displaced bone fragment was pressing on the retroclavicular part of the brachial plexus, leading to early symptoms of a lesion of the posterior cord. Internal fixation of the clavicle and external neurolysis of the brachial plexus gave an almost full recovery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Barbier
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Malghem
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Delaere
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Vande Berg
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Rombouts
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016025:Bone Transplantation; D001917:Brachial Plexus / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D002968:Clavicle / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D004576:Electromyography; D005596:Fractures, Closed / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D018460:Fractures, Comminuted / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007085:Ilium / Q000637:transplantation; D008297:Male