Anatom3DInfraclavicular part of brachial plexus
Pars infraclavicularis plexus brachialis · Podklíčková část pažní pleteně
Nervous system
Looks like
The lower part of the brachial plexus in the armpit below the collarbone: the three cords and their branches.
What it does
Distributes nerves to the whole arm and hand around the axillary artery.
Keeping it well
A regional term. Nerve blocks for arm surgery are given here; shoulder dislocation can stretch it.
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