Anatom3DBranches of posterior cord of brachial plexus
Rami fasciculi posterioris plexus brachialis · Větve zadního svazku pažní pleteně
Nervous system
Looks like
The nerves arising from the posterior cord of the brachial plexus behind the axillary artery.
What it does
Give the radial and axillary nerves and the subscapular and thoracodorsal nerves — the arm and back extensors.
Keeping it well
A group term. Crutch pressure in the armpit can injure them, causing wrist drop.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis)
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Lyme disease
- Myasthenia gravis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Shoulder dislocation
- Tetanus
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies