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Hunter Syndrome

Findings from K. Kim et al in Hunter syndrome reported

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, May 9th, 2008

"We report a patient with bow hunter's syndrome who was treated by anterior decompression of the vertebral artery (VA) using an ultrasonic bone curette (SONOPET). This 60-year-old man reported almost losing consciousness upon head rotation," scientists writing in the journal Acta Neurochirurgica report.

"Although the right VA appeared normal at the natural head position, upon left head rotation it became completely occluded at the transverse foramen of C2. We performed anterior decompression of the right VA at the axis using a high-speed drill and SONOPET," wrote K. Kim and colleagues.

The researchers concluded: "For anterior decompression of...

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