Gamze Durhan, Selin Ardalı Düzgün, Osman Öcal, Orhan Macit Arıyürek
BACKGROUND: Radiological diagnosis of thoracic nerve diseases is difficult because they are rare and nerves cannot be seen directly on radiological images. The major nerves of the thorax can be listed as the phrenic, vagus, recurrent laryngeal, long thoracic nerve pairs, sympathetic chains, costal nerves, and brachial plexus. Diseases of thoracic nerves have various causes including traumatic injury, neuromuscular diseases, infection, compression, radiation, drugs, and tumors. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this pictorial review is to describe the anatomic locations of the major thoracic nerves on radiological images, comprehensively describe the causes of thoracic nerve diseases and to define the clinical signs, and primary and secondary imaging findings of dysfunction of the thoracic nerves...
June 10, 2022: Current medical imaging