Cervical vs Brachial plexus

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Cervical vs Brachial plexus

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drrabines
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01/15/04 - 07:51 AM

if a patient complaints for tingling a numbness in the arm lateral aspect what would you suspect
- brachial plexus lesion or
- cervical root lesion

01/15/04 - 08:20 AM

Brachial plexus lesion

gballarino
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01/15/04 - 02:08 PM

I would say Brachial Plexus, because the symptom does not appear to be distributed in a precise dermatome. You should check the details of the question stem...

Dermatome distribution? ... root lesion.

Nerve supply distribution? ... plexus, trunk, or nerve lesion.

I may be wrong in this one... Really, not my strong subject.

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