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Isolated Spinal Cord Arteritis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Thomas E. Feasby ,
Gary G. Ferguson  and
J.C.E. Kaufmann
Thomas E. Feasby
Affiliation:
Departments of Pathology (Neuropathology) and Clinical Neurological Sciences, University Hospital, London, Ontario
Gary G. Ferguson
Affiliation:
Departments of Pathology (Neuropathology) and Clinical Neurological Sciences, University Hospital, London, Ontario
J.C.E. Kaufmann*
Affiliation:
Departments of Pathology (Neuropathology) and Clinical Neurological Sciences, University Hospital, London, Ontario
*
Department of Pathology (Neuropathology), University Hospital, 339 Windermere Road, London, Ontario, Canada N6G 2K3
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This patient presented as a subacute progressive cervical myelopathy and the differential diagnosis included cervical spondylotic myelopathy and intramedullary mass. Microscopically, vascular lesions plus a patchy myelomalacia indicated a vasculitis. However, there was no suggestion of a generalized vasculitis at autopsy and the only supporting laboratory study was a raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate. It would seem that a vasculitis similar to polyarteritis nodosa or other collagen disease may be confined to the spinal cord.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , May 1975 , pp. 143 - 146
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1975

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