Posterior spinal artery infarct

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 1998 Feb;19(2):361-3.

Abstract

Acute medullary syndrome developed in a patient in whom glue had been inadvertently injected into the right posterior radiculomedullary artery during endovascular occlusion of a spinal dural arteriovenous fistula at T-11. MR imaging 40 days after the procedure showed signal changes and contrast enhancement in the posterior and right lateral column at T10-11. Circumscribed signal changes in the same areas without contrast enhancement were seen 4 months later. MR imaging was able to show this posterior spinal artery infarct.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Arteries / drug effects
  • Arteries / pathology
  • Arteriovenous Fistula / diagnosis
  • Arteriovenous Fistula / therapy*
  • Dura Mater / blood supply*
  • Embolization, Therapeutic*
  • Enbucrilate / administration & dosage
  • Enbucrilate / adverse effects*
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Iatrogenic Disease
  • Infarction / chemically induced
  • Infarction / diagnosis*
  • Magnetic Resonance Angiography*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
  • Male
  • Neurologic Examination / drug effects
  • Spinal Cord / blood supply*

Substances

  • Enbucrilate