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Case report| Volume 31, ISSUE 5, P750-752, May 1952

Brachial plexus and subclavian artery embarrassment caused by hemorrhage into the supraclavicular fossa

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      Abstract

      An unusual case of compression of the brachial plexus and subclavian artery (anterior scalene syndrome) due to hemorrhage from one of the venous tributaries to the subclavian vein is presented.
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