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Case Reports
. 2014 Dec 12;6(3):281-6.
doi: 10.1159/000369921. eCollection 2014 Sep-Dec.

Hereditary Neuropathy with Liability to Pressure Palsy Presenting as an Acute Brachial Plexopathy: A Lover's Palsy

Sarah Wedderburn  1 , Puraskar Pateria  2 , Peter K Panegyres  3
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Hereditary Neuropathy with Liability to Pressure Palsy Presenting as an Acute Brachial Plexopathy: A Lover's Palsy

Sarah Wedderburn et al. Case Rep Neurol. .

Abstract

It is generally regarded that patients with hereditary neuropathy to pressure palsies, due to a deletion in the PMP22 gene, show recurrent pressure palsy and generalised peripheral neuropathy (pes cavus and hammer toes sometimes develop). Brachial plexopathy is rarely identified as a first presentation of hereditary neuropathy to pressure palsies. We describe a young man who developed a painless flail upper limb with a clinical diagnosis of a brachial plexopathy after his partner slept on his arm - a PMP22 deletion was found. His father, who had a symmetrical polyneuropathy without recurrent mononeuropathies, shared the PMP22 deletion.

Keywords: Brachial plexopathy; Hereditary neuropathy; Lover's palsy; Pressure palsy.

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