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A previously healthy 38-year-old man presented a typical Parsonage-Turner syndrome (PTS) three weeks after a cold and unusual muscular exercise. In addition to the motor and sensory defects of the upper limbs, a right hemidiaphragmatic paralysis occurred, which proved to be reversible after several months. A brief review of the hemidiaphragmatic injury in PTS is presented.
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Pieters, T., Lambert, M., Huaux, J.P. et al. Hemidiaphragmatic paralysis, an unusual presentation of Parsonage-Turner syndrome. Clin Rheumatol 7, 402–405 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02239201
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