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arteriography
An imaging technique for examining blood vessels. A dye opaque to X-rays, called contrast material or radiopaque, is injected into the patient's bloodstream and the arteries are revealed in an X-ray photograph. The technique is particularly useful in detecting atherosclerosis.
Types of arteriography include:
- Aortography (Aortic angiography)
- Cerebral angiography
- Coronary angiography
- Extremity arteriography
- Fluorescein angiography
- Lymphangiogram
- Pulmonary angiography
- Renal arteriography
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