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Four cases are reported which illustrate mechanisms by which patients with cervical cord trauma may develop signs of acute brain stem damage. Two patients suffered vertebro-basilar ischaemia as a result of trauma to the vertebral arteries. The remaining two patients developed cavitating lesions within the cervical cord which later dissected rostrally into the brain stem.
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Read at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Medical Society of Paraplegia, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, Bucks, England, May 1983.
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Irwin, J., Abbott, R., Burt, A. et al. Brain stem signs in acute cervical cord trauma. Spinal Cord 23, 82–88 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1985.15
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1985.15