Delayed Presentation of Vertebral Artery Injury Caused by Cervical Spine Compression-Extension Type Fracture
10.4055/jkoa.2025.60.2.98
- Author:
Hun Kyu SHIN
1
;
Jung Taek IM
;
Jeong-In SHON
;
Changkyun JEONG
;
Jai Hyung PARK
Author Information
1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
- Publication Type:Case Report
- From:The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
2025;60(2):98-102
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Vertebral artery injury is common in cervical trauma, and can lead to infarction in some patients with potentially fatal outcomes. The authors encountered a patient with posterior inferior cerebellar artery infarction resulting from preoperative vertebral artery injury after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion and posterior decompression and fusion in a 44-year-old male after unilateral cervical facet joint fracture (compression-extension type injury). This paper reports these imaging findings and relevant clinical studies for this case.
