Carotid Artery Surgery

Dec 11, 2016 by in NEUROLOGICAL IMAGING Comments Off on Carotid Artery Surgery

Fig. 1 Schematic drawing that shows the measurements for NASCET and ECST criteria Table 1 Angiographic criteria NASCET (A–B) ———– × 100 % stenosis A ECST (C–B) ———– × 100 % stenosis C It…

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Imaging of Carotid Atherosclerosis

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Fig. 1 Atherosclerosisin the carotid bulb from three endarterectomy specimens showing morphological variations. (a) A mature necrotic core with intraplaque hemorrhage (asterisk) is the main component of the plaque. The…

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Vascular Loop Syndromes

Dec 11, 2016 by in NEUROLOGICAL IMAGING Comments Off on Vascular Loop Syndromes

Fig. 1 A sixty-eight-year-old female patient with left trigeminal neuralgia. Axial CISS images (a, b), axial time-of-flight MRA source images (c, d), and coronal reconstruction (e, f) show AICA loop…

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Surgical Treatment of Aneurysms

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Fig. 1 (a) Selective right internal carotid artery (ICA) digital subtraction angiography injection, oblique projection, showing a complex aneurysm arising from the takeoff of the anterior choroidal artery (arrows). (b)…

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Blister Aneurysms

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Fig. 1 Axial CT (a) showing acute subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by rupture of a blister aneurysm. The aneurysm was not diagnosed on preliminary CTA, but subsequent DSA (b and c)…

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Anatomy of the Neck Arteries

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Fig. 1 Branching patterns of the aortic arch. (a) Standard configuration. (b) Common origin of the brachiocephalic trunk and the left common carotid artery. (c) Origin of the left common…

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Atherosclerosis: Biological and Pathological Basis

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Molecule Function Nitric oxide (NO) Vasodilator Prostacyclin (PGI2) Vasodilator Endothelin-1 (ET-1) Vasoconstrictor Endothelium-derived contracting factors (EDCF) Vasoconstrictor The activity of the VSMC can be regulated directly by the sympathetic and…

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Nonatherosclerotic Vascular Disease: Biological and Pathological Basis

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© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016Luca Saba and Eytan Raz (eds.)Neurovascular Imaging10.1007/978-1-4614-9029-6_49 3. Nonatherosclerotic Vascular Disease: Biological and Pathological Basis Pierleone Lucatelli1  , Beatrice Sacconi1   and Carlo Catalano1   (1) Department of Radiological, Oncological and Anatomo-Pathological Sciences, Sapienza University…

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