Brachial Plexus Injuries Ultrasound Diagnostics
Investigation of 17 patients with traumatic damage of cervical spine and the upper extremity in the anamnesis and clinical signs of function infringement of one of the upper extremities with presence of the expressed neurologic symptoms and 40 patients (control group) with anamnestic and clinical absence of the pathology of cervical and brachial plexuses and nerves of the upper extremities was carried. Ultrasound signs of brachial plexus traction injuries were: non-uniform thickening of its trunks on extent, diffuse non-uniform nervous trunks echostructure with infringement of the internal differentiation. Ultrasound signs of complete rupture of one of brachial plexus trunks were: full intermittence of the nervous trunk course, rough nerve external contours, and non-uniform trunk echostructure. Ultrasound signs of neuroma formation were: local club-shaped thickening of nervous trunk proximal stump and the expressed echogenicity decrease of this thickened part.