Vertebral Body Infarction as a Confirmatory Sign of Spinal Cord Ischemic Stroke
Open Access
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Stroke
- Vol. 29 (1) , 239-243
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.str.29.1.239
Abstract
Background —Acute spontaneous spinal cord syndromes often remain etiologically ambiguous despite extensive diagnostic efforts. In the previous literature five cases are described with acute spinal cord syndromes interpreted as spinal cord ischemic strokes because of association with vertebral body infarctions on MRI.Keywords
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