Pure motor stroke due to vertebral artery dissection.
A 39-year-old man presented with a pure motor stroke 9 days after cervical chiropractic manipulation. Computerised tomographic scanning showed a pontine infarct. Cerebral angiography showed changes consistent with the diagnosis of bilateral vertebral artery dissection. It is postulated that the infarct resulted from artery-to-artery embolism.
Phillips
S J
SJ
Department of Medicine, Camp Hill Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Maloney
W J
WJ
Gray
J
J
D000328:Adult; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002684:Chiropractic; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D014711:Vertebral Artery