PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Fisher, Mark
AU  - Ahmadi, Jamshid
AU  - Zee, Chi-Shing
AU  - Terry, Roger
AU  - Weiner, John M.
TI  - Arteriography of the carotid bifurcation
AID  - 10.1212/WNL.35.8.1201
DP  - 1985 Aug 01
TA  - Neurology
PG  - 1201--1201
VI  - 35
IP  - 8
4099  - http://n.neurology.org/content/35/8/1201.short
4100  - http://n.neurology.org/content/35/8/1201.full
SO  - Neurology1985 Aug 01; 35
AB  - Atherosclerotic plaques may not be demonstrated adequately by standard anteroposterior (AP)-lateral projections of carotid arteriography. We evaluated selective carotid arteriography in oblique projections for 60 individual carotid arteries. Two neuroradiologists evaluated arteriograms in four separate sessions devoted to AP-lateral views alone and in combination with oblique projections. The lumen surface was characterized as “smooth,” “irregular,” or “ulcerated.” When oblique projections were added to AP-lateral views, there was a significant shift of radiologic diagnosis from smooth to irregular or ulcerated. Addition of oblique projections to standard AP-iateral views increases the radio-graphic diagnosis of carotid artery lesions that may be the source of emboli.