[Non-ischemic borderline brachial paralysis].

Abstract

Non ischemic anterior borderzone brachial paralysis. Anterior borderzone brachial paralysis (ABBP) is a hemodynamic ischemic syndrome of the watershed zone between the anterior and middle cerebral arteries. Two cases of non ischemic reversible ABBP are reported. The first suffered from multiple sclerosis; a CT-scan showed a lesion of the corona radiata, at the level of the anterior hemispheric borderzone. The second suffered from lung adenocarcinoma. A CT-scan showed multiple metastases, one being surrounded with oedema at the level of the anterior borderzone. According to its reversibility, the ABBP was reported to the inflammatory-oedematous reaction and not to a demyelinating or metastatic lesion itself. As ABBP may occur unilaterally, the name "one-armed man syndrome" should be used instead of "man-in-the-barrel syndrome" (which always implies a bilateral paralysis).

• Authors: Y De Smet
• Journal: Acta neurologica Belgica (Acta Neurol Belg) Vol. 92 Issue 5 Pg. 296-9 ( 1992) ISSN: 0300-9009 [Print] Italy
• Vernacular Title: Paralysie brachiale frontière d'origine non ischémique.
• PMID: 1471467 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Brachial Plexus
• Brain Ischemia (complications, diagnostic imaging)
• Cerebral Arteries
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Paralysis (etiology)
• Pregnancy
• Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular
• Tomography, X-Ray Computed