臂丛神经病在文献中曾用过许多不同的名称报导过,如“肩胛带多发神经炎”、“肩胛带局限性神经炎”、“急性臂神经根炎”、“局限性非外伤性神经病”、“神经痛性肌萎缩”、“Parsonage 及 Turner 氏肩胛带综合征”、“急性肩部神经炎”、“麻痹性臂神经炎”等。本文不称其为神经炎,因为没有证据说明本病是炎症性的或传染性的。 Brachial plexus neuropathy has been reported in the literature under a number of different names, such as “scapular polyneuritis”, “localized gonotopulmonary neuritis”, “acute brachial root inflammation”, “localized non-traumatic neuropathy” , “Neuropathic Muscle Atrophy,” “Parsonage and Turner’s Shoulder Girdle Syndrome,” “Acute Shoulder Neuritis,” “Paralytic Brachial Neuritis,” and the like. This article does not call neuritis, because there is no evidence that the disease is inflammatory or contagious.