Low detection rate of craniocervical arterial dissection in children using time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography: Causes and strategies to improve diagnosis

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1250-1257

  Tan, Marilyn A ^c   DeVeber, Gabrielle ^a   Kirton, Adam ^b   Vidarsson, Logi ^a   MacGregor, Daune ^a   Shroff, Manohar ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Arterial dissection; Magnetic resonance angiography; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOCERVICAL ARTERY DISSECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DIPLOPIA; DIZZINESS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INFANT; LETHARGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SLURRED SPEECH; UNSTEADINESS; VERTIGO; VOMITING; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE;

EID: 74549176055     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073809333539     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Schievink WI, Mokri B, Piepgras DG. Spontaneous dissections of cervicocephalic arteries in childhood and adolescence. Neurology. 1994;44:1607-1612.
2. Chabrier S, Husson B, Lasjaunias P, Landrieu P, Tardieu M. Stroke in childhood: outcome and recurrence risk by mechanism in 59 patients. J Child Neurol. 2000;15:290-294.
3. Fullerton HJ, Johnston C, Smith WS. Arterial dissection and stroke in children. Neurology. 2001;57:1155-1160.
4. Rafay MF, Armstrong D, Deveber G, Domi T, Chan A, MacGregor DL. Craniocervical arterial dissection in children: clinical and radiographic presentation and outcome. J Child Neurol. 2006;21:8-16.
5. Sträter R, Becker S, von Eckardstein A, et al. Prospective assessment of risk factors for recurrent stroke during childhood-a 5-year follow-up study. Lancet. 2002;360:1540-1545.
6. Fullerton HJ, Wu YW, Sidney S, Johnston SC. Risk of recurrent childhood arterial ischemic stroke in a population-based cohort: the importance of cerebrovascular imaging. Pediatrics. 2007;119:495-501.
7. Monagle P, Chalmers E, Chan A, et al. Antithrombotic therapy in neonates and children: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines (8th edition). Chest. 2008;133:887-968.
8. Burger IM, Murphy KJ, Jordan L, Tamargo RJ, Gailloud P. Safety of cerebral digital subtraction angiography in children: complication rate analysis in 241 consecutive diagnostic angiograms. Stroke. 2006;37:2535-2539.
9. Yang CW, Carr JC, Futterer SF, et al. Contrast-enhanced MR angiography of the carotid and vertebrobasilar circulations. Am J Neuroradiol. 2005;26:2095-2101.
10. Al-Kwifi O, Shelef I, Farb RI, Stainsby J, Wright GA. Highresolution imaging of the intracranial arterial and venous systems following a single contrast injection. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2006;24:267-273.
11. Husson B, Rodesch G, Lasjaunias P, Tardieu M, Sébire G. Magnetic resonance angiography in childhood arterial brain infarcts: a comparative study with contrast angiography. Stroke. 2002;33:1280-1285.
12. Andrew M, Deveber G. Pediatric Thromboembolism and Stroke Protocols. Chap 14, 1st ed. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: B. C. Decker; 1997:43.
13. Sebire G, Fullerton H, Riou E, Deveber G. Toward the definition of cerebral arteriopathies of childhood. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2004;16:617-622.
14. O'Sullivan R, Robertson W, Nugent R, Berry K, Turnbull IM. Supraclinoid carotid artery dissection following unusual trauma. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 1990;11:1150-1152.
15. Uchino A, Sawada A, Takase Y, Kan Y, Matsuo M, Kudo S. Supraclinoid carotid dissection in a pediatric patient. Clin Imaging. 2001;25:385-387.
16. Auer A, Felber S, Schmidauer C, Waldenberger P, Aichner F. Magnetic resonance angiographic and clinical features of extracranial vertebral artery dissection. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1998;64:474-481.
17. Silbert PL, Mokri B, Schievink WI. Headache and neck pain in spontaneous internal carotid and vertebral artery dissections. Neurology. 1995;45:1517-1522.
18. Arnold M, Bousser MG, Fahrni G, et al. Vertebral artery dissection: presenting findings and predictors of outcome. Stroke. 2006;37:2499-2503.
19. Hasan I, Wapnick S, Tenner MS, Couldwell WT. Vertebral artery dissection in children: a comprehensive review. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2002;37:168-177.
20. Danchaivijitr N, Cox TC, Saunders DE, Ganesan V. Evolution of cerebral arteriopathies in childhood arterial ischemic stroke. Ann Neurol. 2006;59:620-626.
21. Mascalchi M, Bianchi MC, Mangiafico S, et al. MRI and MR angiography of vertebral artery dissection. Neuroradiology. 1997;39:329-340.
22. Broome DR. Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis associated with gadolinium based contrast agents: a summary of the medical literature reporting. Eur J Radiol. 2008;66:230-234.
23. Penfield JG, Reilly RF. Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis risk: is there a difference between gadolinium-based contrast agents? Semin Dial. 2008;21:129-34.
24. Issa N, Poggio ED, Fatica RA, Patel R, Ruggieri PM, Heyka RJ. Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis and its association with gadolinium exposure during MRI. Cleve Clin J Med. 2008;75:95-97, 103-104, 196.
25. Penfield JG, Reilly RF Jr. What nephrologists need to know about gadolinium. Nat Clin Pract Nephrol. 2007;3:654-668.
26. Rollins N, Dowling M, Booth T, Purdy P. Idiopathic ischemic cerebral infarction in childhood: depiction of arterial abnormalities by MR angiography and catheter angiography. Am J Neuroradiol. 2000;21:549-556.
27. Kasner SE, Hankins LL, Bratina P, Morgenstern LB. Magnetic resonance angiography demonstrates vascular healing of carotid and vertebral artery dissections. Stroke. 1997;28:1993-1997.
28. Khurana DS, Bonnemann CG, Dooling EC, Ouellette EM, Buonanno F. Vertebral artery dissection: issues in diagnosis and management. Pediatr Neurol. 1996;14:255-258.
29. Flis CM, Rolf Jäger H, Sidhu PS. Carotid and vertebral artery dissections: clinical aspects, imaging features and endovascular treatment. Eur Radiol. 2007;17:820-834.
30. Hosoya T, Adachi M, Yamaguchi K, Haku T, Kayama T, Kato T. Clinical and neuroradiological features of intracranial vertebrobasilar artery dissection. Stroke. 1999;30:1083-1090.
31. Ganesan V, Savvy L, Chong K, Kirkham F. Conventional cerebral angiography in children with ischemic stroke. Pediatr Neurol. 1999;20:38-42.
32. Bernstein MA, Huston J III, Lin C, Gibbs GF, Felmlee JP. Highresolution intracranial and cervical MRA at 3.0 T: technical considerations and initial experience. Magn Reson Med. 2001;46:955-962.
33. Ishimaru H, Ochi M, Morikawa M, et al. Accuracy of pre-and postcontrast 3D time-of-flight MR angiography in patients with acute ischemic stroke: correlation with catheter angiography. Am J Neuroradiol. 2007;28:923-926.
34. James CA, Glasier CM, Angtuaco EE. Altered vertebrobasilar flow in children: angiographic, MR, and MR angiographic findings. Am J Neuroradiol. 1995;16:1689-1695.
35. Levy C, Laissy JP, Raveau V, et al. Carotid and vertebral artery dissections: three-dimensional time-of-flight MR angiography and MR imaging versus conventional angiography. Radiology. 1994;190:97-103.
36. Oelerich M, Stögbauer F, Kurlemann G, Schul C, Schuierer G. Craniocervical artery dissection: MR imaging and MR angiographic findings. Eur Radiol. 1999;9:1385-1391.
37. Robertson WC Jr, Given CA II. Spontaneous intracranial arterial dissection in the young: diagnosis by CT angiography. BMC Neurol. 2006;6:16.
38. Camacho A, Villarejo A, de Aragón AM, Simón R, Mateos F. Spontaneous carotid and vertebral artery dissection in children. Pediatr Neurol. 2001;25:250-253.
39. Fung E, Ganesan V, Cox TS, Chong WK, Saunders DE. Complication rates of diagnostic cerebral arteriography in children. Pediatr Radiol. 2005;35:1174-1177.