Cervical Nerve Root Compression Due to Vertebral Artery Loop Indentation: Case Report

Symptoms such as pain, numbness, and loss of muscle strength may occur as a result of cervical discopathies and spondylosis-associated cervical nerve palsy symptoms. Vertebral artery loop formation is a rare vascular pathology associated with nerve root compression resulting in similar clinical symptoms. The treatment strategy may be completely different following the diagnosis. Magnetic resonance imaging of the patient who admitted to our hospital due to complaints of right-sided numbness detected vertebral artery loop causing narrowing of the neural foraminal area and C3 nerve compression. No significant pathology was found in the Doppler ultrasound (US) examination performed for the vertebral artery vasculature following the examination. Cervical disc pathologies are the main pathology in the vast majority of patients suffering from cervical region pain and numbness and loss of strength. In rare cases, keeping in mind the other pathologies that constrain neural foraminal area is useful for differential diagnosis.