[MR-angiography in diagnosis and follow-up of therapy: arteria lusoria].
Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures are presented in a 29-year-old female patient who suffered from severe dysphagia and rapid loss in weight. In the conventional X-ray examination and barium swallow an aberrant right subclavian artery was suspected. MR imaging (MRI) and MR angiography (MRA) were done to plan the surgical correction. Postoperative MRA documented exactly the complex topography after surgical correction and the flow pattern in the implanted Gore-Tex stretch graft prosthesis. Non-invasive MR angiography renders possible the concrete planning of complex corrections of thoracic vessels replacing invasive catheter angiography.
Vogl
T J
TJ
Strahlenklinik und Poliklinik, Klinikum Rudolf-Virchow, Freie Universität, Berlin.
Juergens
M
M
Harms
J
J
Pegios
W
W
Zimmermann
A
A
Hetzer
R
R
Felix
R
R
D000328:Adult; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D003680:Deglutition Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004630:Emergencies; D004940:Esophageal Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D013348:Subclavian Artery / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D014135:Tracheal Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery
D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene
MR-Angiographie in Diagnostik und Therapiekontrolle: Arteria lusoria.