선택적 척추동맥 조영촬영술 = Selective Spinal Arteriography

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Although spinal arteriography has been used since Tarlov demonstrated a spinal extradural hemangioblastoma by angiography carried out during surgery, its diagnostic technique was still surrounded by an esoteric halo, because its misconceptions regarding technical difficulty, misgivings about its reported dangers, and mistaken opinion of limited usefulness confined to arteriovenous malformations of the spinal cord. However, these mistaken opinions were soon corrected by Di Chiro in 1964 who carried out first successful selective arteriography of spinal cord in injecting contrast medium into the intercostal and lumbar arteries. Di Chiro commented on experience with selective spinal arteriography of the spinal cord in normal cases and in patients with pathology other than arteriovenous malformations such as tumors, syringomyelia, and secondary dilatation of the spinal cord vessels. Hence author reported the experienced 6 cases of spinal canal diseases with selective spinal arteri graphy as a successful diagnositc method with high accuracy since March, 1976; 2 cases of vertebral hemangioma, 2 cases of metatstatic epidural & spinal carcinoma, 1 case of arteriovenous malformation of spinal cord, and 1 case of chronic adhesive arachnoiditis. And also, author reviewed literatures of selective spinal arteriography.