1. Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
- Author
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Jean-Michel Cormier, Jean-Baptiste Ricco, C. Marchand, and Jerome Cau
- Subjects
Thoracic outlet ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Weakness ,business.industry ,Scalene muscles ,Subclavian vessels ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,surgical procedures, operative ,cardiovascular system ,Medicine ,cardiovascular diseases ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Brachial plexus ,Subclavian vein ,Thoracic outlet syndrome - Abstract
Thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) describes a variety of symptoms caused by compression of the brachial plexus or subclavian vessels at the thoracic outlet. In the majority of cases, symptoms are neurological with pain and weakness resulting from C8 or T1 root compression. Arterial or venous symptoms resulting from compres- sion are uncommon accounting for 5% of cases in a large published series [13].
- Published
- 2007