1 The Section of Neurology, Department of Medicine, the Department of Radiology, and the Section of neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City 3, Kansas
A technique for visualization for the entire cervicocephalic vascular system by means of retrograde catheterization of the aorta from a femoral artery puncture is presented.
Transfemoral cervicocephalic angiography presents a number of advantages over carotid or vertebral angiography. During the last few months it has been used routinely as the preferred technique for visualization of either the neck or the intracranial vessels in all patients with suspected intracranial vascular and mass lesions, and is on the way to replace ventriculography or pneumoencephalography in children suspected of having posterior fossa tumors.