Direct injury to the intercostobrachial nerve and other sensory nerves in the underarm (axilla) and breast areas during surgery causes PMPS. Subsequent formation of scar tissue from surgery for breast ...

In a clinical trial of 14 women with PMPS, Prologo and his colleagues targeted one particular nerve — the intercostobrachial nerve in the armpit area — with cryoablation. Over 180 days after ...

However, one of the interventional radiology strategies that Prologo and his colleagues recently studied was targeting the intercostobrachial nerve, which runs under the arm and through the breast and ...

Earlier called “Intercostobrachial nerve entrapment syndrome”, PMPS is defined as chronic pain lasting for three months, either because of a primary lesion or because of neuropathic pain.

In a clinical trial of 14 women with PMPS, Prologo and his colleagues targeted one particular nerve — the intercostobrachial nerve in the armpit area — with cryoablation. Over 180 days after ...

The skin of the axilla is supplied by the intercostobrachial nerve. The anterior boundary of the axilla comprises the following: Pectoralis major – the largest muscle in the pectoral region ...