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KMID : 0980720140330010044
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Keimyung Medical Journal
2014 Volume.33 No. 1 p.44 ~ p.47
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Cervical Spinal Cord Infarction Presenting Brown-Sequard-plus Syndrome
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Park Sang-Won
Kwon Seok-Kyung
Kim Jin-Suk
Menon Bijoy K
Hong Jeong-Ho
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Abstract
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Brown-Sequard-plus syndrome is characterized by hemiparesis, contralateral spinothalamic sensory deficits with additional abnormal findings of other organs. We report a case of an 81-year-old man who had right hemiparesis, left sensory deficit and Horner syndrome on right eye. Diffusion-weighted MRI of the cervical spine and lower medulla confirm the diagnosis of anterior unilateral cervical spinal cord infarction. It is very rare that the unilateral long spinal cord infarction at the C1-C4 associated with Brown-Sequard-plus syndrome.
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KEYWORD
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Brown-Sequard-plus syndrome, Spinal cord infarction, Vertebral artery
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