title: Limb-shaking TIA related to moyamoya disease: diagnosis with magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance angiography.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In a case with moyamoya disease, we found the magnetic resonance image and magnetic angiographic studies were helpful for the definite diagnosis of the disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  A young adult presented limb-shaking transient ischemic attacks caused by moyamoya disease. The magnetic resonance angiography proved the steno-occlusive lesions in the major arteries of circle of Willis, and the magnetic resonance images demonstrated compensatively congested and dilated leptomeningeal vessels and lenticulostriate arteries with exhausted vasomotor elasticity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this case, without the aid of conventional angiography, the noninvasive magnetic resonance studies offered explicit imaging evidence to support the diagnosis and to illuminate the patient's clinical manifestation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Shang-Chang
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: Huey-Juan
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Yu-Kun
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Tsui
authors.forename: Poh-Shiow
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Yeh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009072:Moyamoya Disease / Q000150:complications*