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Artefactual absence of the vertebral artery: A previously unrecorded phenomenon of axillary catheterisation

Absence artéfactielle de l'artère vertébrale: une complication inédite de la cathétérisation axillaire

Artefizielles Fehlen der A. vertebralis: Eine vorher nichl festgestellte Komplikation der transaxillären Katheteresierung

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Summary

Failure to visualise the vertebral artery on the side of the introduction of a catheter into the axillary artery is described. This is thought to represent a technical artifact, probably due to trauma during catheterisation.

Résumé

Les auteurs décrivent la non-visualisation de l'artère vertébrale du côté de l'introduction du cathéter dans l'artère axillaire. Ils pensent qui'il s'agit d'un artéfact technique, probablement dû à un traumatisme durant la cathétérisation.

Zusammenfassung

Bei einer Katheter-Kontrastmitteluntersuchung über die rechte A. axillaris wurde festgestellt, daß die rechte A. vertebralis nicht nachweisbar was. Es wurde ein Verschluß angenommen. — Bei einer späteren Untersuchung mit dem Femoralis-Katheter konnte nun jedoch die Kontrastmittelfüllung der rechten A. vertebralis nachgewiesen werden. Die Möglichkeiten dieses artefiziellen, „Verschlusses” werden diskutiert.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif., USA

    I. F. Moseley & F. K. Sondheimer

  2. Lysholm Radiological Department, The National Hospital for Nervous, Diseases Queen Square, W.C. 1, London, England

    I. F. Moseley

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Moseley, I.F., Sondheimer, F.K. Artefactual absence of the vertebral artery: A previously unrecorded phenomenon of axillary catheterisation. Neuroradiology 7, 45–47 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00344675

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