A case of posterior spinal artery syndrome in the cervical cord: A review of the clinicoradiological literature

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 803-807

  Murata, Kiyoko ^a   Ikeda, Ken ^a   Muto, Mitsuaki ^b   Hirayama, Takehisa ^a   Kano, Osamu ^a   Iwasaki, Yasuo ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY OMORI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b Makita General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical cord; MRI; Neck extension; Posterior spinal artery syndrome; Vertebral artery dissection

Indexed keywords

CLOPIDOGREL; GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BABINSKI REFLEX; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONSTIPATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; GAIT; HEMIFACIAL ATROPHY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NECK PAIN; PARESTHESIA; POSTERIOR SPINAL ARTERY SYNDROME; PROPRIOCEPTION; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD VASCULAR DISEASE; URINE RETENTION; VIBRATION SENSE;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL CORD VASCULAR DISEASES; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION;

EID: 84859348362     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.6922     Document Type: Article

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