Brachial Plexitis(Archived)

Brachial plexitis is characterized by the acute onset of shoulder pain, followed by weakness and a sensory loss of the shoulder and upper extremity. The results of several reports further described the condition. However, the most crucial findings were uncovered in a specific report authored by Parsonage and Turner in 1948 involving 136 patients. The findings strongly characterized the clinical history of the condition. Since then, the condition has been known by many different names, such as Parsonage-Turner syndrome, neuralgic amyotrophy, acute brachial neuropathy, acute brachial plexitis, idiopathic brachial plexopathy, idiopathic brachial neuritis, paralytic brachial neuritis, and brachial radiculitis, among others.