The usefulness of 3D-CT angiography for the diagnosis of spontaneous vertebral artery dissection - Report of two cases

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 115-119

  Kurokawa, Y ^a,b   Yonemasu, Y ^a,c   Kano, H ^a   Sasaki, T ^a   Inaba, K ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Asahikawa Neurosurgical Hospital   (Japan)

^c SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dissecting aneurysm; Fusiform aneurysm; Helical CT; MR angiography; Spiral CT; Spontaneous dissection; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

DISSECTING ANEURYSMS; SPONTANEOUS DISSECTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; FEMALE; GENERAL APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOSIS; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0033624830     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(00)00005-7     Document Type: Article

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