Orthopantomography as a Screening Method for Detection of Carotid Arteries Calcifications (Literature Review)
Abstract
Orthopantomography (OPTG) is performed routinely as a diagnostic method for practically any dental disease. However, most dentists don’t attach importance to the fact that this X-ray technique allows to visualize the changes not only of the facial bones of the skull, and also of the soft tissues of the neck, one of which are calcifications of the carotid arteries (CCA). CCA visualization shows the presence of the atherosclerosis of the arteries of the neck in this patient, which in turn is one of the main causes of cerebrovascular accident by ischemic type. All this confirms the fact that the assessment of OPTG as the screening method to identify the CCA is a promising direction, which in the future will might help to reduce the level of cardio- and cerebrovascular complications of atherosclerosis
About the Authors
Dmitry A. Lezhnev
Moscow State Medical University of Medicine and Dentistry named after A. I. Evdokimov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
M. D. Med., Head of Department of Radiology
Igor D. Stulin
Moscow State Medical University of Medicine and Dentistry named after A. I. Evdokimov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
M. D. Med., Head of Department of Nervous Diseases
Pavel V. Sadikov
Practical Center of Medical Radiology, Healthcare Department of Moscow
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Senior Researcher
Aleksandr Y. Vasil’ev
Moscow State Medical University of Medicine and Dentistry named after A. I. Evdokimov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
M. D. Med., Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of Department of Radiology
Maria S. Starodubtseva
Moscow State Medical University of Medicine and Dentistry named after A. I. Evdokimov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Resident of Department of Radiology
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Lezhnev D., Stulin I., Sadikov P., Vasil’ev A., Starodubtseva M. Orthopantomography as a Screening Method for Detection of Carotid Arteries Calcifications (Literature Review). Radiology - Practice. 2017;(1):47-58. (In Russ.)
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