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C S O'Gorman

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PubMed2006

The aetiology of brachial plexus injury: what the paediatrician and obstetrician need to know.

The recognition of brachial plexus injury (BPI) after childbirth suggests to parents a causative rather than temporal relationship. This view is supported by textbooks of paediatrics, which state that: 1. "the mechanism of injury is a forceful separation of the head from the shoulder by lateral bending of the neck with simultaneous shoulder depression, during vaginal delivery"; and 2. "these injuries are due to traction on the brachial plexus during delivery."2 Although an obstetrician will talk to a parent when BPI occurs, the ongoing care of the child is within a mutidisciplinary team, where the paediatrician and obstetrician play leading roles. Parents will ask about aetiology, treatment and prognosis; but is the textbook explanation adequate? We illustrate the potential dilemma for the paediatrician and obstetrician through 2 cases of BPI and outline some data on BPI, which is not congruent with current paediatric texts.

Birth Injuries↗
PubMed2001

Bilateral choroidal metastases as the initial presentation of breast carcinoma.

A 64 year old female presented with a right eye visual impairment. On examination, the visual acuity was decreased on the right side. Slit lamp examination showed bilateral non-pigmented choroidal lesions. Physical examination was unremarkable; bilateral mammogram, however, showed a mass in the left breast, the biopsy from which confirmed the lesion as infiltrative carcinoma. Other tests were normal apart from the isotope bone scan which showed evidence of metastatic disease. She received a short course of radiotherapy to both eyes as well as a 6-month course of chemotherapy. At 6 months follow-up, the choroidal lesions were no longer present and the visual acuity had stabilized. Choroidal metastasis as the initial presentation of breast carcinoma is unusual. Any patient with an ocular tumour should undergo a systemic check-up to rule out an underlying malignancy.

Breast Neoplasms↗