Vertebral artery dissection mimicking Parsonage-Turner syndrome

This emphasizes that vertebral artery dissection can manifest in some rare cases with a peripheral neurologic deficit. This might be typically radicular or clinically similar to Parsonage-Turner syndrome. Therefore it is necessary to think about this differential diagnosis especially in younger patients suffering from pain and weakness in the shoulder-arm region without degenerative disk disease or pathologic findings along the cervicobrachial plexus fibers.