Abstract

Brachial plexus is the majör neurai structure responsible for the motor and neural innervation of upper extremity. More than half of brachial plexopathies develop after trauma. Radiation plexopathy, primary or metastatic lung cancer and metastatic breast carcinoma comprimise 75% of nontraumatic causes. Freçuency of symptomatic brachial plexopathy development follovving treatment of breast carcinoma is reported to be 1.8-4.9%. İn tis paper vve present radiation induced plexopathy, second axillary primary tumor induced plexopathy, metastatic plexopathy in four breast carcinoma patients. Brachial plexopathy can develop due to differ-ent mechanisms in breast carcinoma patients. Whatever the cause, the symptoms are resistant and Progressive. Multidisciplinary therapeutic approach may slow down progression. Treatment should aim to alleviate syptoms like pain and dysesthesia. Interven-tional treatment options like explorative surgery, rizotomy, cordotomy, can be applied in selected cases.