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Neuropediatrics 2006; 37(2): 107-109
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-924023
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Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Spinal Cord and Vertebral Stroke: A Paediatric Case

C. Parazzini1 , L. Rossi2 , A. Righini1 , E. Bianchini1 , M. Mastrangelo3 , F. Spreafico2 , F. Triulzi1
  • 1Department of Radiology and Neuroradiology, Istituti Clinici di Perfezionamento, Milan, Italy
  • 2Department of Paediatrics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
  • 3Department of Paediatrics, Fondazione IRCCS H Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli, Regina Elena, Milan, Italy
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Received: August 1, 2005

Accepted after Revision: February 26, 2006

Publication Date:
14 June 2006 (online)

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Abstract

Spinal cord ischaemia is a rare entity and very few cases of simultaneous spinal cord and vertebral body infarction have been reported: all of them in adult age. We observed a 15-year-old girl with abrupt onset of myelopathy and pain at the vertebral column studied by means of serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and in whom bone infarction was a confirmatory sign of the vascular origin of the spinal lesion. This is to the best of our knowledge the first paediatric case described in the literature.

Key words

MRI - vertebral body infarction - spinal cord infarction - paediatric

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M.D. Cecilia Parazzini

Department of Radiology and Neuroradiology
Istituti Clinici di Perfezionamento
H. dei Bambini V. Buzzi

Via Castelvetro 32

20154 Milan

Italy

Email: parazzini@icp.mi.it