Angiography of Calvarial Hemangioma

Autor: S M Wolpert, J B Simmons
Rok vydání: 1969
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Zdroj: Radiology. 93:328-330
ISSN: 1527-1315
0033-8419
DOI: 10.1148/93.2.328
Popis: AREVIEW of the literature reveals few such case reports as the following, in which a calvarial hemangioma was investigated by angiography. Case Report V. K. F., a 42–year–old female, was admitted to the Addington Hospital, Durban, Republic of South Africa, in 1961, complaining of a lump on the head. She told the physician she had had the lump for five to six years and that it appeared to be increasing in size. On examination, a hard, fixed mass measuring 8 × 10 em was felt over the right parietal bone. The mass was nontender and the overlying soft tissues were freely mobile over it. The findings on a negative. Plain radiographs of the skull showed multiple well demarcated areas of increased translucency with trabecular honeycombing in the parietal, frontal, and temporal bones on the right side and in the occipital bone. Tangential views demonstrated expansion of the outer table in the parietal region, with radial spiculation (Fig. 1). Right common carotid angiography, carried out to assess the vascularity...
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