Symptoms
Symptoms include claw hand, paralysis of intrinsic hand muscles, and ulnar nerve distribution numbness. Involvement of T1 may result in Horner's syndrome, with ptosis, and miosis.
It can be contrasted to Erb-Duchenne's palsy, which affects C5 and C6.
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