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The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery British Volume
Vol. 79-B, Issue 4 | Pages 534 - 536
1 Jul 1997
Barbier O Malghem J Delaere O Vande Berg B Rombouts JJ

Clavicular fractures are occasionally responsible for lesions of the brachial plexus. The symptoms are usually delayed and due to compression by hypertrophic callus, nonunion or a subclavian pseudoaneurysm.

We describe a patient in whom a displaced bone fragment was pressing on the retroclavicular part of the brachial plexus, leading to early symptoms of a lesion of the posterior cord. Internal fixation of the clavicle and external neurolysis of the brachial plexus gave an almost full recovery.