[Cervical myelopathy disclosing dissection of the extracranial vertebral artery]

P Labouret; C Tranchant; M Jesel; J L Dietemann; J M Warter

[Cervical myelopathy disclosing dissection of the extracranial vertebral artery]

Rev Neurol (Paris). 1993;149(10):559-61.

[Article in French]

Authors

P Labouret¹, C Tranchant, M Jesel, J L Dietemann, J M Warter

Affiliation

¹ Service de Neurologie II, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg.

PMID: 8023072

Abstract

A case of medullary ischaemic accident in C5 symptomatic of extracranial vertebral artery dissection is reported. The facilitating factors of vertebral artery dissection are discussed.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Aortic Dissection / complications*
Aortic Dissection / diagnostic imaging
Constriction, Pathologic
Female
Humans
Ischemia / etiology
Spinal Cord / blood supply
Spinal Cord Diseases / diagnostic imaging
Spinal Cord Diseases / etiology*
Subtraction Technique
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Torticollis / etiology
Vertebral Artery* / diagnostic imaging