• Katsuhiro Tanaka, Masatoshi Muramatsu, Haruhiko Tashiro, and Hiroji Ito.
• Department of Neurosurgery, Kuwana City Hospital, 435 Kitabessho, Kuwana-shi, Mie 511-0819, Japan.
• No Shinkei Geka. 2009 Jan 1; 37 (1): 65-9.

AbstractThis article reports a case of a 59-year-old male who suffered from left brachial plexopathy occurring at night in bed. He had experienced multiple surgical courses of thyroid tumor resection including neck dissection and had presented left secondary jugular phlebectasia Jugular phlebectasia is mainly congenital and sometimes secondarily induced by compression, mechanical ventilation, trauma, thrombosis, etc. Brachial plexopathy is usually caused by neck and arm trauma, additionally caused by iatrogenic nerve and vessel injury. To our knowledge, this is the first report of brachial plexopathy accompanied by ipsilateral jugular phlebectasia. We hypothesized the etiology of this case through multimodal examinations and reviewed the literature about jugular phlebectasia and brachial plexopathy.

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