PMID- 7639473
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19950913
LR  - 20170214
IS  - 0003-4894 (Print)
IS  - 0003-4894 (Linking)
VI  - 104
IP  - 8
DP  - 1995 Aug
TI  - Differential diagnosis of pulsatile neck masses by Doppler color flow imaging.
PG  - 633-8
AB  - A pulsatile neck mass (PNM) requires careful judgment in its evaluation, and it 
      is difficult and inaccurate to diagnose a PNM only by physical examination, even 
      though a thrill or bruit is present. Doppler colorflow imaging (DCI) was 
      performed as an initial evaluation in nine patients with PNMs. Intravenous 
      digital subtraction angiography, intra-arterial angiography, X-ray computed 
      tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging were performed in selected cases. The 
      DCI revealed seven vascular masses (three tortuosities of the common carotid 
      artery, two tortuosities of the brachiocephalic artery, one pseudoaneurysm, and 
      one traumatic arteriovenous fistula) and two nonvascular masses (one neurofibroma 
      and one metastatic lymph node). The clinical diagnoses of all the vascular masses 
      were defined by DCI. In nonvascular masses, fine-needle aspiration biopsy could 
      be performed relatively safely and accurately by monitoring the feeding artery or 
      the common carotid artery by DCI. This method was quite useful for the initial 
      evaluation in the differential diagnosis of PNMs.
FAU - Takeuchi, Y
AU  - Takeuchi Y
AD  - Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Chiba University School of Medicine, Japan.
FAU - Numata, T
AU  - Numata T
FAU - Suzuki, H
AU  - Suzuki H
FAU - Konno, A
AU  - Konno A
FAU - Kaneko, T
AU  - Kaneko T
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol
JT  - The Annals of otology, rhinology, and laryngology
JID - 0407300
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Angiography, Digital Subtraction
MH  - Diagnosis, Differential
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Neck/*blood supply/diagnostic imaging
MH  - Physical Examination
MH  - *Pulsatile Flow
MH  - Tomography, X-Ray Computed
MH  - *Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color
MH  - Vascular Diseases/*diagnostic imaging/physiopathology
EDAT- 1995/08/01 00:00
MHDA- 1995/08/01 00:01
CRDT- 1995/08/01 00:00
PHST- 1995/08/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1995/08/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1995/08/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1177/000348949510400808 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 1995 Aug;104(8):633-8. doi: 10.1177/000348949510400808.