Spinal cord and vertebral stroke: a paediatric case.
Spinal cord ischaemia is a rare entity and very few cases of simultaneous spinal cord and vertebral body infarction have been reported: all of them in adult age. We observed a 15-year-old girl with abrupt onset of myelopathy and pain at the vertebral column studied by means of serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and in whom bone infarction was a confirmatory sign of the vascular origin of the spinal lesion. This is to the best of our knowledge the first paediatric case described in the literature.
Parazzini
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Department of Radiology and Neuroradiology, Istituti Clinici di Perfezionamento, H. dei Bambini V. Buzzi, Via Castelvetro 32, 20154 Milan, Italy. parazzini@icp.mi.it
Rossi
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L
Righini
A
A
Bianchini
E
E
Mastrangelo
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M
Spreafico
F
F
Triulzi
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F
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000098:blood supply*; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000098:blood supply*