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Case report Man‐in‐the‐barrel syndrome caused by cervical spinal cord infarction
Author(s) -
Berg D.,
Miillges W.,
Koltzenburg M.,
Bendszus M.,
Reiners K.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
acta neurologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.967
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1600-0404
pISSN - 0001-6314
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1998.tb05977.x
Subject(s) - medicine , spinal cord , lesion , diplegia , anterior spinal artery , infarction , vertebral artery dissection , spinal cord diseases , dissection (medical) , anatomy , surgery , cardiology , cerebral palsy , physical medicine and rehabilitation , myocardial infarction , psychiatry
Acute brachial diplegia with normal findings of the legs, “man‐in‐the barrel” (MIB) syndrome, is generally thought to be caused by bilateral supratentorial brain lesions of the prerolandic cortical and subcortical area. We report 1 patient with a sudden onset of MIB syndrome with no supratentorial lesion but a hemodynamically induced atypical anterior spinal cord infarction after unilateral vertebral artery dissection. Thus, in MIB syndrome an infratentorial lesion site, including the cervical spinal cord, should also be considered.