Table 3 Risk factors for Paget-Schroetter Syndrome
From: Paget-Schroetter syndrome in the absence of common predisposing factors: a case report
Risk Factors | |
|---|---|
Physical activity involving hyperabduction of the shoulder, as seen in weight lifters | |
Motions often associated with tennis players and baseball pitchers | |
Vigorous exercise of the neck and upper extremity muscles | |
Overdeveloped anterior scalene muscle Rudimentary first rib | |
Presence of cervical rib | |
Congenital band between first and second ribs Fracture of the clavicle with callus formation | |
Apical tumors of the superior sulcus of the lung (Pancoast tumor) | |
Thoracic outlet syndrome |