Posterior cervical spinal cord infarction following thyrocervical trunk embolization.

Dear Sir, Spinal cord infarction is much less frequent than cerebral infarction, accounting for only 1% of all strokes and, furthermore, posterior spinal cord infarction is particularly rare [1–3] . Etiologies of spinal cord infarction are heterogeneous such as vertebral dissection, hypotension, atherosclerosis of vertebral arteries, cocaine mis use, fibrocartilaginous embolization, aortic aneurysmal repair, epidural anesthesia, vasculitis and prothrombin mutation [4] . We report the case of posterior cervical spinal cord infarction following thyrocervical trunk embolization for hemoptysis.