Anterior Spinal Artery Syndrome in a 13-Year-Old Boy 8 Days After Taekwondo-Fight: Vascular Obliteration Due to Vessel Lesion or Thrombophilia?

We assume that a combination of the patient's prothrombotic risk factor (MTHFR-polymorphism with elevated homocysteine levels) and his trauma in the taekwondo-fight with consecutive vessel injury caused an occlusion of the artery by late emboli or a growing thrombus.