Experience of spinal arteriography on the disorder of cervical spine and/or cord

Abstract

This report is to describe arteriographic findings of vertebral, anterior spinal and radicular arteries by selective angiography accoding to Seldinger's method performed on 48 cases with disorder of cervical spine and/or cord.
There are 31 cases of cervical osteochondrosis in which many vertebral arteries showed local displacement and anterior spinal- and radicular arteries were clearly visualized in one disc lesion and they were not nearly visualized in multple disc lesions.
Five cases with ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament demonstrated almost normal vertebral arteries, but rare appearance of anterior spinal- and radicular arterier.
The arteriographic findings of other cervical disorder such as disc herniation, spinal tumor and cord injury were also reported.