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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Radiol Imaging 2012; 22(04): 350-357
DOI: 10.4103/0971-3026.111490
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Pictorial essay: Vascular interventions in extra cranial head and neck

Suyash S Kulkarni
Department of Radiodiagnosis, Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Mumbai
,
Nitin S Shetty
Department of Radiodiagnosis, Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Mumbai
,
Tejas P Dharia
Department of Radiodiagnosis, Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Mumbai
,
Ashwin M Polnaya
Department of Radiodiagnosis, Tata Memorial Centre, Parel, Mumbai
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Abstract

Medicine is an ever changing field and interventional radiology (IR) procedures are becoming increasingly popular because of high efficacy and its minimally invasive nature of the procedure. Management of disease processes in the extra cranial head and neck (ECHN) has always been a challenge due to the complex anatomy of the region. Cross sectional imaging of the ECHN has grown and evolved tremendously and occupies a pivotal and integral position in the clinical management of variety of head and neck pathologies. Advances in angiographic technologies including flat panel detector systems, biplane, and 3-dimensional rotational angiography have consolidated and expanded the role of IR in the management of various ECHN pathologies. The ECHN is at cross roads between the origins of great vessels and the cerebral vasculature. Thorough knowledge of functional and technical aspects of neuroangiography is essential before embarking on head and neck vascular interventions. The vessels of the head and neck can be involved by infectious and inflammatory conditions, get irradiated during radiotherapy and injured due to trauma or iatrogenic cause. The ECHN is also a common site for various hypervascular neoplasms and vascular malformations, which can be treated with endovascular and percutaneous embolization. This pictorial essay provides a review of variety of ECHN pathologies which were managed by various IR procedures using different approaches.

Keywords

Carotid blowout - Embolization - stent graft - sclerotherapy - vascular interventions


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04 October 2021

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