Postoperative Onset of Idiopathic Brachial Neuritis

THIS report describes a case of postsurgical idiopathic brachial neuritis (IBN) in an otherwise healthy female physician. The recognition of this entity as a potential cause of symptoms of peripheral neuropathy in the postoperative patient is important for anesthesiologists to know because of the possibility that it may be misdiagnosed as a brachial plexus stretch injury or ulnar nerve compressive injury.