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Diagnosis of microvasculopathy in CNS vasculitis: Value of perfusion and diffusion imaging
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Diagnosis of microvasculopathy in CNS vasculitis: Value of perfusion and diffusion imaging

William T.C Yuh, Toshihiro Ueda, Joan E Maley, Jerome P Quets, Matthew White, Paul Y Hahn and Shoichiro Otake
Journal of magnetic resonance imaging, Vol.10(3), pp.310-313
09/1999
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-2586(199909)10:3<310::AID-JMRI12>3.0.CO;2-C
PMID: 10508291

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Abstract

Functional imaging may come to play an important role in the evaluation of CNS vasculitis by demonstrating pathology on the microcirculatory level. A positive finding of microvascular ischemia may assist in the diagnosis of CNS vasculitis. More importantly, the demonstration of normal microcirculation may reliably exclude CNS vasculitis. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 1999;10:310–313. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
perfusion imaging magnetic resonance imaging cerebral angiography diffusion imaging CNS vasculitis

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