head & neck angiography

Indications

• evaluation of
  • carotid artery disease
  • vertebrobasilar disease
  • atherosclerotic cerebrovascular disease
  • brain tumor
  • subarachnoid hemorrhage

Procedure

• angiography of the extracranial carotid artery, vertebral artery, basilar artery, &/or intracranial vessels

More general terms

• arteriography

More specific terms

• carotid angiography
• cerebral angiography (cerebral arteriography)
• vertebrobasilar angiography