Stent Grafting of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: Pre- and Postoperative Evaluation with Multislice Helical CT

Rydberg Jonas, Kopecky Kenyon K., Lalka Stephen G., Johnson Matthew S., Dalsing Michael C., Persohn Scott A.

Endovascular stent grafting of abdominal aortic aneurysms is a new technique that may replace open surgery in selected cases. Pre- and postoperative angiography can be replaced by helical CT. This pictorial essay describes and illustrates the use of multislice helical CT where maximum intensity projection and multiplanar reformats play a central role in the evaluation.