title: Causes of misinterpretation of cross-sectional imaging studies for dissection of the craniocervical arteries.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This review presents some of the more common causes of false-positive and false-negative interpretations of cross-sectional imaging studies showing, or designed to show, dissection of the carotid or vertebral arteries.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Dissection of the craniocervical arteries is a diagnosis that can be very difficult on cross-sectional imaging studies such as CT angiography, MRI, and MR angiography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3808, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Provenzale
authors.forename: Basar
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sarikaya
authors.forename: Lotfi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hacein-Bey
authors.forename: Max
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wintermark
mesh_terms: D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002339:Carotid Arteries; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014711:Vertebral Artery