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Lipoma compressing the brachial plexus in a patient with sarcoidosis: case report
Daipayan Guha1, Tim-Rasmus Kiehl, Abhijit Guha
1Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
British Journal of Neurosurgery
|April 20, 2011
Abstract:
Lipomas associated with distal peripheral nerves are well recognized; however, those impinging on the brachial plexus are rare. We document a unique case of a sarcoidosis patient with an extraneural lipoma compressing the brachial plexus, and present a review of the current literature.