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Traumatic intradural avulsion of the nerve roots of the brachial plexus, by Patrick Taylor (from the Division of Neurological Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California at Los Angeles and the Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital Los Angeles). Brain 1962: 85; 579–602.
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Writing 130 years after the first description of traumatic avulsion of the spinal roots that give rise to the brachial plexus, and sometime after this complication of injury was first demonstrated by myelography, Patrick Taylor supplements an account of three cases observed personally with a review of the literature. The early work, much of it derived from obstetric practice, has established the now classic accounts of Erb–Duchenne [Wilhelm Erb (1840–1921) and Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne (1806–1875)] palsy of the upper plexus, torn at the C5/C6 junction (Erb's point), and Mme Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke's (1859–1927) account of total plexus lesions that might recover to leave the ‘Erb syndrome’ from which she has concluded, based in part on experimental canine studies but later through autopsy evidence, that the presence of Horner's syndrome indicates involvement of the T1 root. But, although the literature contains around 90 cases confirmed at autopsy or surgical exploration [first