Application of Spinal Subtraction and Bone Background Fusion CTA in the Accurate Diagnosis and Evaluation of Spinal Vascular Malformations.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Accurate pretreatment diagnosis and assessment of spinal vascular malformations using spinal CTA are crucial for patient prognosis, but the postprocessing reconstruction may not be able to fully depict the lesions due to the complexity inherent in spinal anatomy. Our purpose was to explore the application value of the spinal subtraction and bone background fusion CTA (SSBBF-CTA) technique in precisely depicting and localizing spinal vascular malformation lesions.

Materials and methods

In this retrospective study, patients (between November 2017 and November 2022) with symptoms similar to those of spinal vascular malformations were divided into diseased (group A) and nondiseased (group B) groups. All patients underwent spinal CTA using Siemens dual-sour

SUBMITTER: Hu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11286120 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature