J Korean Neurol Assoc.  2020 Feb;38(1):42-45. 10.17340/jkna.2020.1.8.

Cervical Spinal Cord Infarction Presenting as Chest Pain in Patients with Acute Cerebellar Infarction

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  • 1Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Abstract

Spinal cord infarction is rare, especially cervical cord infarction is lesser than thoracic and lumbar level. We describe two cases of cervical cord infarction following cerebellar infarction with vertebral artery occlusion, which initially presented with chest pain and dyspnea. Blood supply for the cervical cord comes from anterior and posterior spinal artery, which originated from the distal vertebral or posterior inferior cerebellar arteries. Therefore, occlusion of unilateral vertebral artery could cause a cervical cord infarction.

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Stroke; Cerebellum; Spinal cord ischemia
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