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| Its presentation varies and may include acute ischaemia of the arm; an arm with palpable pulses and a normal capillary refill time secondary to the extensive anastomotic network of collateral vessels around the shoulder3; brachial plexopathy secondary to swelling and compression from the injured axillary artery where they lie within a common fascial sheath. Bhatt,7 in the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps in 2000, published a case report of two cases of transient brachial plexopathy due to the wearing of body armor weighing approximately 5 kg. The patient with brachial plexopathy and associated isolated shoulder abduction weakness had no additional strength gains in affected muscle groups at 1 year but continued to be unhampered functionally by this deficit. |
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