title: [Case of the jugular phlebectasia accompanied by the brachial plexopathy].
abstract: This article reports a case of a 59-year-old male who suffered from left brachial plexopathy occurring at night in bed. He had experienced multiple surgical courses of thyroid tumor resection including neck dissection and had presented left secondary jugular phlebectasia Jugular phlebectasia is mainly congenital and sometimes secondarily induced by compression, mechanical ventilation, trauma, thrombosis, etc. Brachial plexopathy is usually caused by neck and arm trauma, additionally caused by iatrogenic nerve and vessel injury. To our knowledge, this is the first report of brachial plexopathy accompanied by ipsilateral jugular phlebectasia. We hypothesized the etiology of this case through multimodal examinations and reviewed the literature about jugular phlebectasia and brachial plexopathy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Kuwana City Hospital, 435 Kitabessho, Kuwana-shi, Mie 511-0819, Japan.
authors.forename: Katsuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Masatoshi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Muramatsu
authors.forename: Haruhiko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tashiro
authors.forename: Hiroji
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ito
mesh_terms: D020516:Brachial Plexus Neuropathies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic; D006801:Humans; D007601:Jugular Veins / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D014805:Vitamin B 12 / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D014805:Vitamin B 12