Commentary Spinal Cord Infarction and Fibrocartilagenous Emboli

The preceding report by Yuh et al (1) provides an interesting discussion of spinal cord infarction. However, there was no mention in that report of fibrocartilagenous embolic disease as a possible etiology of cord infarction. Our group has recently had the opportunity to study a case as part of a clinical-pathologic conference (2) . It is an unusual entity and its preoperative diagnosis is rare, although there are many reports of this abnormality in the non-radiologic literature. For this reason, a re-presentation of that case report and an expanded radiologic discussion is germane to the report by Yuh et al.