Radiation-induced brachial plexus neuropathy - Aetiopathogenesis, risk factors, differential diagnostics, symptoms and treatment

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 26-30

  Gosk, Jerzy ^a   Rutowski, Roman ^a,b   Reicher, Paweł ^a   Rabczyński, Jerzy ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Brachial plexus neuropathy; Cancer recurrence; Fibrosis; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; VINCA ALKALOID;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; NECK CANCER; NERVE SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OMENTOPLASTY; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOM; THORAX CANCER; ANIMAL; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; NEOPLASM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOTHERAPY;

ANIMALS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34447336187     PISSN: 16414640     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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