A cerebral angiogram checks for abnormalities in the blood vessels of your brain. The procedure has a handful of related names. These include: Carotid angiogram or angiography Cerebral angiogram or ...

Computed tomography (CT) of the head is generally the first diagnostic tool to evaluate patients with suspected neurological pathology, even though it lacks the sensitivity and specificity needed to ...

Cerebral angiography is a diagnostic test that uses an X-ray. It produces a cerebral angiogram, or an image that can help your doctor find blockages or other abnormalities in the blood vessels of your ...

A 24 year-old woman presented with headaches followed by lethargy and then coma. On examination, her pupils were small but reactive to light. She had no vertical upgaze with a doll's head maneuver.

An 18 year-old woman presented with headaches followed by lethargy and then coma. On examination, she had papilledema. She withdrew the left side more than the right, to a painful stimulus. Cerebral ...

Cerebral venous thrombosis is a rare, often severe disease that has been brought to public attention by the COVID-19 pandemic. A research group has now succeeded for the first time in deciphering a ...

An angiogram is a diagnostic test that uses X-rays and a contrast dye to visualize the blood vessels in the body, including those in the brain. This test can help diagnose a brain aneurysm. An ...

The common clinical features of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are intracranial haemorrhage, seizure, headache, or other signs of an intracranial mass. 1 Dural AVMs (DAVMs) have been estimated to ...

A 57-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a left red eye of five months’ duration. A dull ache had recently developed behind that eye, but the patient had not experienced ...

Robert is a 39-year-old male who presented with a 5-day history of severe headaches treated initially with antibiotics for suspected sinusitis by his primary-care physician. Robert's headaches did not ...