Radiology, Vol 127, 763-766, Copyright © 1978 by Radiological Society of North America
B-mode ultrasonography of prosthetic vascular grafts
GA Gooding, KA Herzog, MW Hedgcock and RL Eisenberg
The role of contact B-mode ultrasonography in demonstrating prosthetic
vascular grafts was assessed in 24 patients (27 grafts). All grafts were
well delineated. End-to-side bypass grafts could be separated from
end-to-end replacement grafts by their characteristic appearance. Patent
and occluded grafts could not be distinguished either in vivo or in vitro.
However, B-mode ultrasonography was ideally suited to the detection of
other complications of vascular prosthetic grafts: hematoma, infection, and
false aneurysm formation.
