Spinal manifestations of vertebral artery dissection

Neurology. 2000 Jul 25;55(2):304-6. doi: 10.1212/wnl.55.2.304.

Abstract

Among 111 patients with vertebral artery dissection (VAD), two presented with spinal manifestations: one with a C5-C6 radiculopathy and the other with a cervical myelopathy. Of 13 previously reported cases of spinal manifestations of VAD (mean age 37 years), ischemic cervical myelopathy was noted in seven; cervical radiculopathy, often at C5-C6 and primarily motor, in five; and hemorrhagic complications in one, with chest pain being part of the presentation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cerebral Angiography
  • Humans
  • Ischemia / diagnosis*
  • Magnetic Resonance Angiography
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Radiculopathy / diagnosis*
  • Spinal Cord / blood supply*
  • Spinal Nerve Roots / blood supply*
  • Vertebral Artery / pathology
  • Vertebral Artery Dissection / diagnosis*