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Pure motor stroke due to vertebral artery dissection
S J Phillips1, W J Maloney, J Gray
1Department of Medicine, Camp Hill Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Abstract:
A 39-year-old man presented with a pure motor stroke 9 days after cervical chiropractic manipulation. Computerised tomographic scanning showed a pontine infarct. Cerebral angiography showed changes consistent with the diagnosis of bilateral vertebral artery dissection. It is postulated that the infarct resulted from artery-to-artery embolism.