Man-in-the-Barrel Syndrome Secondary to Idiopathic Acute Anterior Spinal Artery Infarction

A 52-year-old female presented to our hospital with an acute history of isolated bilateral arm weakness. An MRI of the cervical spine confirmed an acute anterior spinal artery infarction. Further investigations to determine a specific etiology were unremarkable, leading to a diagnosis of idiopathic...

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Autores principales: Baroud, Sarah, Al Zaabi, Fatima, Gaba, Waqar H, El Lahawi, Mohammed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10405022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37554587
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41549
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description A 52-year-old female presented to our hospital with an acute history of isolated bilateral arm weakness. An MRI of the cervical spine confirmed an acute anterior spinal artery infarction. Further investigations to determine a specific etiology were unremarkable, leading to a diagnosis of idiopathic anterior spinal artery infarction consistent with Man-in-the-Barrel syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-104050222023-08-08 Man-in-the-Barrel Syndrome Secondary to Idiopathic Acute Anterior Spinal Artery Infarction Baroud, Sarah Al Zaabi, Fatima Gaba, Waqar H El Lahawi, Mohammed Cureus Internal Medicine A 52-year-old female presented to our hospital with an acute history of isolated bilateral arm weakness. An MRI of the cervical spine confirmed an acute anterior spinal artery infarction. Further investigations to determine a specific etiology were unremarkable, leading to a diagnosis of idiopathic anterior spinal artery infarction consistent with Man-in-the-Barrel syndrome. Cureus 2023-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10405022/ /pubmed/37554587 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41549 Text en Copyright © 2023, Baroud et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Baroud, Sarah
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El Lahawi, Mohammed
Man-in-the-Barrel Syndrome Secondary to Idiopathic Acute Anterior Spinal Artery Infarction
title Man-in-the-Barrel Syndrome Secondary to Idiopathic Acute Anterior Spinal Artery Infarction
title_full Man-in-the-Barrel Syndrome Secondary to Idiopathic Acute Anterior Spinal Artery Infarction
title_fullStr Man-in-the-Barrel Syndrome Secondary to Idiopathic Acute Anterior Spinal Artery Infarction
title_full_unstemmed Man-in-the-Barrel Syndrome Secondary to Idiopathic Acute Anterior Spinal Artery Infarction
title_short Man-in-the-Barrel Syndrome Secondary to Idiopathic Acute Anterior Spinal Artery Infarction
title_sort man-in-the-barrel syndrome secondary to idiopathic acute anterior spinal artery infarction
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10405022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37554587
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41549
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