Neuralgic Amyotrophy: Its Importance in Orthopedics Practice

Neuralgic amyotrophy.

van Dijk JP, Kusters D, van Alfen N, Zwarts MJ, Stegeman DF, Drost G. Using highdensity surface electromyography (HD-sEMG) in detecting neuromuscular disorders in children . Abstract for the 28th International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 10-14 September 2006 Dieks R, van Eijk JJ, van Alfen N, van Engelen BGM. Neuralgic amyotrophy and treatment with prednison...

Pediatric Hereditary Neuralgic Amyotrophy

Hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy is a rare disorder characterized by the sudden onset of recurrent episodes of painful brachial plexus neuropathies, followed by atrophy within a few weeks. The authors present the case of a 5-year-old boy who developed hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy in the right upper limb after a gastroenteritis illness. He made a full and rapid recovery with the use of intrave...

Idiopathic neuralgic amyotrophy in childhood.

In addition to the review by van Alfen et al., which has been published in 2000, we would like to report a seven-week-old boy with bilateral idiopathic brachial plexus neuropathy that did not show any signs of osteomyelitis on repeated scintigraphy. To our knowledge this is the first child reported with bilateral plexus involvement.

Neuralgic Amyotrophy in Reiter's Disease.

Diabetic neuralgic amyotrophy.

Introduction Neuralgic amyotrophy (acute paralytic brachial neuritis) is a well defined clinical entity (Parsonage and Turner, 1948). Its characteristic presentation is usually intense pain in one or both shoulders followed after a variable interval, from several hours to days, by weakness and later wasting of the affected muscles. The overall prognosis is excellent, despite the severity and ex...