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cervical rib syndrome

Etiology: - results from compression of 8th cervical spinal nerve & 1st thoracic spinal nerve roots & the inferior trunk of the brachial plexus - applicable to 2 different syndromes: a) arterial thoracic outlet syndrome b) true neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome

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cervical rib

Specific

arterial thoracic outlet syndrome true neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome (cervical rib & band syndrome, classic cervical rib syndrome)

General

thoracic outlet syndrome

References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.
  2. Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 4th edition, KL Moore & AF Dalley (eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA 1999.