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Anterior spinal artery

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Disruption of its perforating branches (sulcal artery) can result in a hemicord syndrome. In fact, acute sulcal artery syndrome should be suspected in patients with acute hemicord syndrome, and vertebral artery dissection should be suspected in cases of high cervical cord involvement. In a recent
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Yoshioka K, Niinuma H, Ohira A, Nasu K, Kawakami T, Sasaki M, Kawazoe K. MR angiography and CT angiography of the artery of Adamkiewicz: noninvasive preoperative assessment of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm. Radiographics. 2003 Sep-Oct;23(5):1215-25.
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review by Tan YJ, et al. in 2021, good functional recovery was seen in most, and vertebral artery dissection was the leading cause of sulcal artery syndrome.
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It supplies the pia mater, and the substance of the medulla spinalis, also sending off branches at its lower part to be distributed to the
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Tan YJ, Ng GJ, Lai J. Sulcal artery syndrome: A Three-patient series and review of literature. J Clin Neurosci. 2021 Jun;88:45-51.
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and courses along the anterior aspect of the spinal cord. It is reinforced by several contributory arteries, especially the
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Tan YJ, Ng GJ, Lai J (June 2021). "Sulcal artery syndrome: A Three-patient series and review of literature".
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showing an axial section of the anterior spinal cord and anterior spinal artery (top-middle of image).
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The anterior spinal artery arises bilaterally as two small branches near the termination of the
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Knowledge articles incorporating text from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
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Disruption of the anterior spinal artery leads to bilateral disruption of the
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On its course the artery takes several small branches (i.e.
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Micrograph
LFB-HE stain

Posterior spinal vein
Anterior spinal vein
Posterolateral spinal vein
Radicular (or segmental medullary) vein
Posterior spinal arteries
Radicular (or segmental medullary) artery
Vertebral arteries
Vein
Anterior spinal veins
Latin
TA98
A12.2.08.016
TA2
4525
FMA
50531
Anatomical terminology
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human anatomy
artery
spinal cord
vertebral arteries
artery of Adamkiewicz
vertebral arteries
medulla oblongata
foramen magnum

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