Neuropathic Arm Pain Differential Diagnoses
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Differential Diagnoses
- Spinal cord injury
- Cervical Radicular Pain
- Median Nerve
- Ulnar Nerve
- Cubital Tunnel Syndrome (Ulnar neuropathy at the elbow)
- Guyon's Canal Syndrome
- Radial Nerve
- Radial Neuropathy at the Spiral Groove (Saturday Night Palsy)
- Posterior Interosseous Nerve Entrapment (at arcade of Frohse)
- Wartenberg Syndrome (superficial radial nerve at the distal forearm)
- Humeral Shaft Fracture
- Other Peripheral Nerve Lesions
- Suprascapular Nerve Entrapment (at suprascapular notch or spinoglenoid notch)
- Shoulder Dislocation (Axillary nerve)
- Long Thoracic Nerve Injury
- Lateral Antebrachial Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment
- Brachial Plexus Lesions
- Neuralgic Amyotrophy (Parsonage-Turner syndrome)
- Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
- Erb-Duchenne Palsy
- Klumpke's Palsy
- Burner or stinger
- Backpacker's palsy
- Traumatic nerve root avulsion
- Hereditary Neuralgic Amyotrophy
- Neoplasms
- Radiation-induced brachial plexopathy
- Iatrogenic plexopathies (e.g. medial brachial fascial compartment syndrome)
- Diabetic-related brachial plexopathy
- Systemic
- Thalamic Pain Syndrome
- Hemiplegic migraine
- Focal sensory seizures
- Multiple sclerosis
- Axillary vein thrombosis or Paget-Schroetter disease
- Fibromyalgia or Myofascial Pain Syndrome
- Herpes Zoster
- Mononeuritis Multiplex
- Multifocal Motor Neuropathy
Further Reading
Closed access article[1]
References
- ā Smith, Sarah M.; McMullen, Christopher W.; Herring, Stanley A. (2021-09-01). "Differential Diagnosis for the Painful Tingling Arm". Current Sports Medicine Reports. 20 (9): 462ā469. doi:10.1249/JSR.0000000000000877. ISSN 1537-8918. PMID 34524190.
