Background: CT-angiography is a non-invasive method, alternative to cerebral angiography in the diagnosis of intracranial aneurysms. The aim of the study was the assessment of the efficiency of CT-angiography in a large material, which has been mostly verified with angiography and/or surgery.
Material/methods: CT-angiography was performed in 196 patients with intracranial bleeding. Seventy-three (73) patients underwent also cerebral angiography (CA), 121 were operated on, 74 of them solely on the basis of CT-angiography. A spiral CT scanning (2 mm slices, 1-1.5 pitch, 1 mm-gap reconstruction) combined with an injection of 120 mL of contrast medium (5 mL/sec) was used. Subsequently three-dimensional MIP reconstructions were received, supplemented in some cases with SSD, VRT and MPR.
Results: CT-angiography revealed 128 aneurysms in 106 patients, located mostly in anterior communicating, middle cerebral and internal carotid arteries. The size of most aneurysms was 6-10 mm, but nearly one-third of them did not exceed 5 mm. In the group of patients who underwent CA, there was only 1 false negative CT-angiography result, while in 7 patients CT-angiography allowed for the diagnosis of small aneurysms which were not clearly visible on CA. CT-angiography was superior to CA in assessment of aneurysm morphology by 3 independent radiologists in 17 out of 22 cases. CT-angiography findings were confirmed during surgery in all 74 patients.
Conclusions: CT-angiography is highly effective in the diagnosis of intracranial aneurysms and the evaluation of their morphology. In our opinion, in most cases, CT-angiography is precise enough to plan a surgical or endovascular procedure.
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