Vertebral artery occlusion with lateral medullary syndrome and cervical cord infarct
- Author:
Jatin V Pothuloori
1
;
V Chandramouleeswaran
1
;
Periyakarupan A
1
;
Balasubramanian Samivel
1
;
Lakshmi Narasimhan Ranganathan
1
;
M Jawahar
1
;
V Kannan
1
;
LA Ravi
1
;
V Ganesh
1
;
Namrata Jayaharan
1
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- Keywords: Posterior circulation stroke; vertebral artery occlusion; cervical cord infarction
- From:Neurology Asia 2020;25(2):225-229
- CountryMalaysia
- Language:English
- Abstract: Wallenberg syndrome (lateral medullary syndrome) is a type of posterior circulation stroke resulting in brainstem infarction which is most often caused by occlusion of vertebral artery or posterior inferior cerebellar artery or both.1 Here we report a case of right lateral medullary syndrome secondary to vertebral artery occlusion with associated left cerebellar and cervical cord infarct resulting in quadriparesis.
- Full text:7.2020my0037.pdf
