title: Hereditary Neuropathy with Liability to Pressure Palsy Presenting as an Acute Brachial Plexopathy: A Lover's Palsy.
abstract: It is generally regarded that patients with hereditary neuropathy to pressure palsies, due to a deletion in the PMP22 gene, show recurrent pressure palsy and generalised peripheral neuropathy (pes cavus and hammer toes sometimes develop). Brachial plexopathy is rarely identified as a first presentation of hereditary neuropathy to pressure palsies. We describe a young man who developed a painless flail upper limb with a clinical diagnosis of a brachial plexopathy after his partner slept on his arm - a PMP22 deletion was found. His father, who had a symmetrical polyneuropathy without recurrent mononeuropathies, shared the PMP22 deletion.
authors: Neurodegenerative Disorders Research Pty. Ltd., West Perth, W.A., Australia.
authors: Sarah
authors: S
authors: Wedderburn
authors: Neurology Unit, Joondalup Health Campus, Joondalup, W.A., Australia.
authors: Puraskar
authors: P
authors: Pateria
authors: Neurodegenerative Disorders Research Pty. Ltd., West Perth, W.A., Australia ; Neurology Unit, Joondalup Health Campus, Joondalup, W.A., Australia.
authors: Peter K
authors: PK
authors: Panegyres
keywords: Brachial plexopathy; Hereditary neuropathy; Lover's palsy; Pressure palsy