Abstract
SUMMARY: The BPL is a part of the peripheral nervous system. Many disease processes affect the BPL. In this article, on the basis of 60 patients, we reviewed MR imaging findings of subjects with brachial plexopathy. Different varieties of BPL lesions are discussed.
Abbreviations
- AA
- axillary artery
- ABD
- abduction
- ADs
- anterior divisions
- AS
- anterior scalene muscle
- AV
- axillary vein
- BPL
- brachial plexus
- CC
- costoclavicular space
- CL
- clavicula
- EMG
- electromyelography
- I
- inferior trunk
- IS
- interscalene triangular space
- LC
- lateral cord
- M
- middle trunk
- MC
- medial cord
- MRA
- MR angiography
- MRV
- MR venography
- MS
- middle scalene
- NEU
- neutral
- PC
- posterior cord
- PDs
- posterior divisions
- PET
- positron-emission tomography
- PMA
- pectoralis major muscle
- PMI
- pectoralis minor muscle
- RP
- retropectoralis minor space
- S
- superior trunk
- SA
- subclavian artery
- STIR
- short tau inversion recovery
- SV
- subclavian vein
- T1WI
- T1-weighted imaging
- T2WI
- T2-weighted imaging
- TOS
- thoracic outlet syndrome
- TSE
- turbo spin-echo
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