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Ultrasound diagnostics in inflammatory vascular disease is of value in assessing the vascular wall with the accompanying flow changes. Of particular clinical importance is the diagnosis of temporal arteritis (giant cell arteritis) by means of high-resolution imaging, for example, with 16–18 MHz linear probes, demonstrating a halo sign and/or segmental vascular stenoses. Equally important are vasospastic and vasculitic intracranial vascular changes, which can be detected by transcranial Doppler or duplex sonography indicating multiple intracranial stenoses. They are suitable for assessing the course of cerebral vasculitides and for therapy control.
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Widder, B., Hamann, G.F. (2022). Inflammatory Vascular Diseases. In: Widder, B., Hamann, G. (eds) Duplex sonography of the brain-supplying arteries. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65566-5_17
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