Diagnosis of microvasculopathy in CNS vasculitis: Value of perfusion and diffusion imaging

Functional imaging may come to play an important role in the evaluation of CNS vasculitis by demonstrating pathology on the microcirculatory level. A positive finding of microvascular ischemia may assist in the diagnosis of CNS vasculitis. More importantly, the demonstration of normal microcirculati...

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Published in:Journal of magnetic resonance imaging 1999-09, Vol.10 (3), p.310-313
Main Authors: Yuh, William T.C., Ueda, Toshihiro, Maley, Joan E., Quets, Jerome P., White, Matthew, Hahn, Paul Y., Otake, Shoichiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brain Ischemia - diagnosis
Central Nervous System Diseases - diagnosis
Central Nervous System Diseases - diagnostic imaging
Cerebral Angiography
Cerebrovascular Circulation
CNS vasculitis
diffusion imaging
Humans
magnetic resonance imaging
Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods
Microcirculation - pathology
perfusion imaging
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
Vasculitis - diagnosis
Vasculitis - diagnostic imaging
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Summary:Functional imaging may come to play an important role in the evaluation of CNS vasculitis by demonstrating pathology on the microcirculatory level. A positive finding of microvascular ischemia may assist in the diagnosis of CNS vasculitis. More importantly, the demonstration of normal microcirculation may reliably exclude CNS vasculitis. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 1999;10:310–313. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
ISSN:1053-1807
1522-2586
DOI:10.1002/(SICI)1522-2586(199909)10:3<310::AID-JMRI12>3.0.CO;2-C