Cardiovascular and interventional radiology
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Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol · Apr 1990
Case ReportsAortic dissection presenting as spinal cord ischemia with a false-negative aortogram.
This article presents a case of type III aortic dissection presenting as a spinal cord syndrome with a prospectively negative initial aortogram. The patient serendipitously illustrates a multimodality approach to aortic dissection imaging. The advantages and disadvantages of conventional radiography, aortography, computed tomography, echocardiography, and magnetic resonance imaging are discussed.