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Case Reports
. 1982 May;58(679):311-3.
doi: 10.1136/pgmj.58.679.311.

Painful brachial plexopathy: an unusual presentation of polyarteritis nodosa

S G Allan, H M Towla, C C Smith, A W Downie, J C Clark
Case Reports

Painful brachial plexopathy: an unusual presentation of polyarteritis nodosa

S G Allan et al. Postgrad Med J. 1982 May.

Abstract

An elderly man was admitted to hospital with an unusual painful bilateral brachial neuropathy, which progressed in spite of high dose corticosteroid therapy. Polyarteritis nodosa, characterized by widespread arteriolar involvement, was shown at post-mortem.

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