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Practical clinical use of dynamic susceptibility contrast magnetic resonance imaging for the surgical treatment of moyamoya disease.

Neurosurgery

March 2014

*Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan; ‡Department of Neurosurgery, Kushiro Kojinkai Memorial Hospital, Kushiro, Japan.

Background: Precise evaluation of hemodynamic stress is important for the treatment of moyamoya disease (MMD).

Objective: To explore whether dynamic susceptibility contrast magnetic resonance imaging could predict the effects and risk of indirect bypass surgery on MMD.

Methods: Clinical data of patients with MMD who were evaluated preoperatively and postoperatively with dynamic susceptibility contrast magnetic resonance imaging and digital subtraction angiography were evaluated retrospectively.

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