Cervical cord compression with myelopathy caused by bilateral persistence of the first intersegmental arteries: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 234-237

  Takahashi, Toshiyuki ^a   Tominaga, Teiji ^a   Hassan, Tamer ^a   Yoshimoto, Takashi ^b   Sonntag, Volker K H ^c   Traynelis, Vincent C ^c   Kim, Daniel H ^c   Benzel, Edward C ^c  

^a KOHNAN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Anomalous artery; Cervical myelopathy; Microvascular decompression; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEVICE; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FIRST INTERSEGMENTAL ARTERY; HUMAN; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0037710686     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000069537.22198.50     Document Type: Article

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