Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Brachial Plexopathy of Cancer

Article abstract-We retrospectively reviewed the clinical records of all patients with cancer and brachial plexopathy who had an MRI of the brachial plexus between 1984 and 1993 (71 patients). The MRIs were reevaluated in a blinded fashion. The presence of a mass adjacent to the brachial plexus on MRI was highly predictive of tumor infiltration as determined by clinicopathologic criteria and was the most useful feature in distinguishing...