- What is it?
- Klumpke palsy is a neuropathy involving the lower brachial plexus.
- Cause
- difficulties in childbirth
- Injury
- Symptoms
- intrinsic minus hand deformity
- paralysis of intrinsic hand muscles
- C8/T1 Dermatome distribution numbness
- Involvement of T1 may result in Horner’s syndrome, with ptosis, and miosis
- Difference Erb’s palsy with Klumpky palsy