title: Transesophageal three-dimensional color Doppler echocardiographic reconstruction of the left vertebral artery.
abstract: We present a patient in whom we successfully reconstructed a long segment of the proximal left vertebral artery in three dimensions using color Doppler transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). Three-dimensional (3-D) color Doppler TEE may complement two-dimensional (2-D) TEE by its ability to view cross sections of the left vertebral artery at any desired level from the 3-D data stored in the computer.
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Heart Station SW/S102, Birmingham, AL 35249, USA. nanda@uab.edu
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Ansingkar
authors.forename: N C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Nanda
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nekkanti
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Aaluri
authors.forename: O P
authors.initials: OP
authors.lastname: Mukhtar
mesh_terms: D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color / Q000379:methods*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014711:Vertebral Artery / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery