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What Is Meaning Of Calcified Vessel?
my 51 year old husband had a stroke 10 years ago. He is in the hospital now for severe head pain. They did a ct scan and saw "something" but didn't say what. They are doing an MRI. They said something about it might be a calcified vessel. They aren't explaining it and I don't understand what is going on. Can you please tell me what this means?
Tue, 31 Mar 2015
CT is sensitive for calcifications as theprocessed imsge depends on the density of the tissue. They would have probably seen some calcifications in the CT. If it's in the vessel in the head probably due to atherosclerosis. They shall do an MR non contrast angio to find out patency of the vessel. Is mostly a benign finding. The MRI would be just to confirm as the soft tissue differentiation is better than CT
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