title: Nuclear medicine, contrast angiography, and magnetic resonance imaging for evaluating vascular problems in the hand.
abstract: Techniques for imaging the vascular tree have undergone change and development. Nuclear imaging can lead to decisions concerning diagnoses of masses, while contrast angiography with digital subtraction gives a complete picture of the vessels. Magnetic resonance angiography is the most exciting advance. Completely noninvasive, it yields much the same information as conventional contrast angiography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: L E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Holder
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Merine
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D006225:Hand / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis; D008209:Lymphedema / Q000175:diagnosis; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D016491:Peripheral Vascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis