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Postprocedural Brachial Neuritis: Clinical, Electrodiagnostic, and Neuroimaging Features

Vardhaan S. Ambati, Neha Madugala, Noriko Anderson, Ann N. Poncelet, Bradley R. Bedell, Reshma P. Kolala, Praveen V. Mummaneni and Vinil N. Shah
American Journal of Neuroradiology May 2025, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A8561
Vardhaan S. Ambati
aFrom the School of Medicine (V.S.A.), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
bDepartment of Neurological Surgery (V.S.A., P.V.M.), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Neha Madugala
cDepartment of Neurology (N.M., N.A., A.N.P., B.R.B., R.P.K.), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Noriko Anderson
cDepartment of Neurology (N.M., N.A., A.N.P., B.R.B., R.P.K.), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Ann N. Poncelet
cDepartment of Neurology (N.M., N.A., A.N.P., B.R.B., R.P.K.), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Bradley R. Bedell
cDepartment of Neurology (N.M., N.A., A.N.P., B.R.B., R.P.K.), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Reshma P. Kolala
cDepartment of Neurology (N.M., N.A., A.N.P., B.R.B., R.P.K.), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Praveen V. Mummaneni
bDepartment of Neurological Surgery (V.S.A., P.V.M.), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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Vinil N. Shah
dDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging (V.N.S.), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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American Journal of Neuroradiology May 2025, DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A8561
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