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- Adesh Tandon, Sid Chandela, David Langer, and Chandranath Sen.
- Department of Neurosurgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10467, USA. atandon26@gmail.com
- Neurosurg Focus. 2013 Sep 1;35(3):E2.
AbstractCervical radiculopathy secondary to compression from congenital anomalous vertebral arteries (VAs) is a known entity. Patients present with a variety of symptoms ranging from upper-extremity numbness to true occipital neuralgia. Treatment options for extracranial tortuous VAs include conservative management or some form of surgical microvascular decompression (MVD). The authors report on a patient with a congenital anomalous VA loop causing cervical nerve root compression. Successful MVD was conducted with relief of the patient's symptoms. A novel sling technique was used for mobilization of the VA. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first MVD described utilizing this technique.
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