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Diagnosis of microvasculopathy in CNS vasculitis: Value of perfusion and diffusion imaging
Author(s) -
Yuh William T.C.,
Ueda Toshihiro,
Maley Joan E.,
Quets Jerome P.,
White Matthew,
Hahn Paul Y.,
Otake Shoichiro
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of magnetic resonance imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.563
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1522-2586
pISSN - 1053-1807
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1522-2586(199909)10:3<310::aid-jmri12>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - vasculitis , medicine , microcirculation , pathology , ischemia , radiology , cardiology , disease
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.