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Arteriography

Arteriography (Greek aer – air + Greek tereo – to contain + Greek grapho – to represent, write) – the X-ray inspection of arteries conducted after administration of contrast medium in their gleam.

Allocate the following types of arteriography:

  • Kateterizatsionny – a contrast agent arrives through the vascular catheter entered into an artery;
  • Opened – a contrast agent is entered by a puncture of an artery which is previously naked in the surgical way;
  • Puncture (synonym: the arteriography closed) – a contrast agent is entered by an artery puncture through skin;
  • Retrograde – puncture arteriography when a contrast agent is entered under pressure against a blood flow;
  • The selection – a contrast agent is entered through a catheter directly into the studied artery;
  • Spinal – arteriography of vessels of a spinal cord; a contrast agent is entered directly into an aorta or selectively – into intercostal, lumbar arteries or into branches of a subclavial artery;
  • Cerebral – arteriography of vessels of a brain; it is applied with the diagnostic purpose at tumors, traumatic, vascular and other damages of a brain, and also when carrying out researches of cerebral circulation;
  • Cerebral carotid – cerebral arteriography when a contrast agent is entered into the general or internal carotid artery;
  • The cerebral selection – cerebral arteriography when separately contrast internal sleepy and vertebral arteries, it allows to conduct researches of pools of these vessels regardless one from another;
  • Cerebral total – cerebral arteriography when a contrast agent is entered into the ascending aorta, it allows to contrast in one step pools of all arteries which supply a brain.
 
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