Advances in differential diagnosis of cerebrovascular diseases in magnetic resonance imaging: a narrative review.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Cerebrovascular diseases (CVDs), particularly cerebral stroke, remain a primary cause of disability and death worldwide. Accurate diagnosis of CVDs is essential to guide therapeutic decisions and foresee the prognosis. Different CVDs have different pathological processes while they have many signs in common with some other brain diseases. Thus, differential diagnoses of strokes from other primary and secondary CVDs are especially important and challenging.

Methods

This review is composed mainly based on searching PubMed articles between September, 2013 and December 26, 2022 in English.

Key content and findings

Neuroimaging is a powerful tool for CVD diagnosis including cerebral angiography, ultrasound, computed tomography, and positron emissio

SUBMITTER: Li X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10102759 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature