title: Usefulness of color Doppler ultrasound in the management of a spinal arteriovenous fistula.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  While color Doppler ultrasonography and microvascular Doppler recordings have been used intraoperatively for spinal cord vascular malformations, they have not been employed for similar spinal cord lesions preoperatively.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report the usefulness of color Doppler ultrasonography through a lumbar laminectomy defect in the management of a spinal arteriovenous fistula.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Color Doppler ultrasonography should be considered for spinal lesions in which a laminectomy defect is present.
authors.affiliation: Sections of Neurological Surgery, Diagnostic Radiology, and Neuroradiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tekula
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Pritz
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kopecky
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Willing
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000601:surgery; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007796:Laminectomy; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000098:blood supply*; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color