Endovascular therapy, including percutaneous transluminal angioplasty with or without stenting, is considered investigational for the management of extracranial vertebral artery disease. There is insufficient evidence to support a conclusion concerning the health outcomes or benefits associated with this procedure. Policy Guidelines The extracranial vertebral artery is considered to be segments...

Intracranial cavernous angiomas are benign vascular malformations and can be divided into intra-axial and extra-axial lesions. Extra-axial cavernous angiomas are relatively rare and usually arise in relation to the dura mater and mimick meningiomas. We report a case of cavernous angioma that occurred in the falx cerebri of a 22-yr-old female patient with the special focus on neuroradiologic fin...

Parts of the mammae, lung, heart and pericardium, liver, spleen, suprarenal bodies, kidneys, peritoneum, stomach, dura mater, and bone marrow were selected for microscopic examination. They were fixed in corrosive sublimate, hardened, embedded in paraffin, and cut with a rocking microtome. The sections now shown were stained with logwood, rubin and orange, and with binodi; and the following is ...