A 61-year-old hypertensive man presented with a 2-month history of progressive weakness and wasting in the left hand and mild numbness in the fifth digit. His past medical history was…
A 48-year-old man had a 6-month history of pain in the right hand, occasionally radiating to the shoulder. He also had numbness with tingling in the first two digits and…
A 33-year-old man came in with left arm pain and numbness in the hand for 5 weeks. He practiced karate. His past medical history was negative. There was weakness without…
Neuromuscular diseases are treated not only with drugs aiming to reverse the cause, such as the immunosuppressants in autoimmune neuropathies, myopathies, and myasthenia gravis (MG), but also with therapies that…
A 65-year-old insulin-dependent diabetic developed end-stage renal disease. He had undergone hemodialysis therapy through a catheter in the left arm for the past 3 years. He presented with pain and…
Neuromuscular disorders are those that affect the anterior horn (motor neuron diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [ALS]), roots (radiculopathies), plexuses (plexopathies), or peripheral nerves (polyneuropathy, mononeuropathy). These also include…
A 56-year-old woman had a 4-month history of left shoulder and arm pain, and a 3-week history of numbness in the dorsum of the hand with some arm weakness. She…
A 30-year-old woman was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 8 years earlier when she presented with tingling, paresthesias, and weakness in her arms and legs. MRI showed patchy demyelinating plaques of…
A 42-year-old man was referred with a 3-week history of weakness in both arms after he underwent a complicated lumbar laminectomy for severe chronic, posttraumatic low back pain and a…
A 65-year-old diabetic woman underwent coronary arteriogram through left elbow catheterization. Shortly afterward, she developed severe pain in the left hand and numbness in the first three digits of the…
