Cervical dural arteriovenous malformation and large epidural venous varices in a rare adult presentation of congenital vascular bone syndrome

Garg, Vasant; Manjila, Sunil; Corriveau, Mark; Bambakidis, Nicholas C.; Sunshine, Jeffrey L.

doi:10.1016/j.clinimag.2015.01.012

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“…The central sulcus arteries that supply nutrition to a large part of the spinal cord are the most important arteries maintaining the normal function of the spinal cord (Martirosyan et al, 2011). Some vascular disorders related to the spinal cord, including angiogenesis in tumors and congenital vascular malformation and embolization in spinal cord blood vessels, are typically associated with chaotic distribution and dysfunction of the microvasculature (Niimi et Gandhi et al, 2015;Garg et al, 2015). Thus, under these conditions, the blood flow and the oxygen and nutrient delivery to the neurons will be affected and cause irreversible damage to spinal cord function.…”

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Visualization of mouse spinal cord intramedullary arteries using phase- and attenuation-contrast tomographic imaging

Cao

Zhang

et al. 2016

J Synchrotron Radiat

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Many spinal cord circulatory disorders present the substantial involvement of small vessel lesions. The central sulcus arteries supply nutrition to a large part of the spinal cord, and, if not detected early, lesions in the spinal cord will cause irreversible damage to the function of this organ. Thus, early detection of these small vessel lesions could potentially facilitate the effective diagnosis and treatment of these diseases. However, the detection of such small vessels is beyond the capability of current imaging techniques. In this study, an imaging method is proposed and the potential of phase-contrast imaging (PCI)- and attenuation-contrast imaging (ACI)-based synchrotron radiation for high-resolution tomography of intramedullary arteries in mouse spinal cord is validated. The three-dimensional vessel morphology, particularly that of the central sulcus arteries (CSA), detected with these two imaging models was quantitatively analyzed and compared. It was determined that both PCI- and ACI-based synchrotron radiation can be used to visualize the physiological arrangement of the entire intramedullary artery network in the mouse spinal cord in both two dimensions and three dimensions at a high-resolution scale. Additionally, the two-dimensional and three-dimensional vessel morphometric parameter measurements obtained with PCI are similar to the ACI data. Furthermore, PCI allows efficient and direct discrimination of the same branch level of the CSA without contrast agent injection and is expected to provide reliable biological information regarding the intramedullary artery. Compared with ACI, PCI might be a novel imaging method that offers a powerful imaging platform for evaluating pathological changes in small vessels and may also allow better clarification of their role in neurovascular disorders.

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