Posterior Cervical Sympathetic Syndrome (Subscribe)  

Sometimes, non-entities are instructive. Barre´’s name is commemorated in the Guillain-Barre´ eponym, but unfortunately, also in the contentious Barre´-Lie´ou syndrome. Barre´ described a syndrome of the posterior cervical sympathetic nerves and its frequent cause—chronic cervical arthritis. Barre´-Lie´ou syndrome has the synonyms brachialgia paraesthetica nocturna, cervical migraine, chronic cervical arthritis, migraine...

Neck injury of the whiplash type may lead to the cranial symptoms of the Barré-Lieou syndrome. Forty patients with this syndrome and 40 without it were investigated by a variety of imaging techniques. There was a clear correlation between root sleeve defects at C3/4 shown by special oblique myelographic views...