angiography
Description
A procedure used to x-ray blood vessels. A
Doctors use angiography to see how blood flows through different organs and structures, including the brain (cerebral angiography), heart (coronary angiography) and lungs (pulmonary angiography). It helps them find out if blood vessels are diseased, narrowed or blocked.
The x-ray image produced is called an angiogram.
Also called arteriography.