UPPER-LIMB PERIPHERAL MOTOR DEFICITS DUE TO EXTRACRANIAL VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION

Authors
DUBARD T POUCHOT J LAMY C HIER D CAPLAN LR MAS JL
Citation
T. Dubard et al., UPPER-LIMB PERIPHERAL MOTOR DEFICITS DUE TO EXTRACRANIAL VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION, Cerebrovascular diseases, 4(2), 1994, pp. 88-91
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System",Neurosciences
Journal title
Cerebrovascular diseases → ACNP
ISSN journal
10159770
Volume
4
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
88 - 91
Database
ISI
SICI code
1015-9770(1994)4:2<88:UPMDDT>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
We describe 2 patients with extracranial vertebral artery dissection p resenting with left cervical pain and peripheral motor deficits in the left upper limb. Potential mechanisms of peripheral nervous system in volvement in dissection of the extracranial vertebral artery include c ompression of the spinal nerves by an enlarged vertebral artery or isc hemia of the anterior horn of the spinal cord or the spinal nerves by occlusion of a spinal radicular artery originating from the vertebral artery.