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Parsonage–Turner syndrome is also known as acute brachial neuropathy and acute brachial radiculitis. Other names used are Parsonage–Aldren–Turner syndrome neuralgic amyotrophy brachial neuritis brachial plexus neuropathy or brachial plexitis. The idiopathic syndrome refers to a rare set of symptoms resulting from inflammation of unknown etiology of the brachial plexus. (The brachial plexus is a complex network of nerves through which impulses reach the arms shoulders and chest.)