[Radiologic spectrum of specific vascular diseases]

The diagnosis of vascularitis should be proposed when a concentric and regular thickening of the wall of the aorta or one of its branches is observed or when there is late enhancement of the arterial wall, on sites which are usually free from atheromatous lesions and in a young patient. The radiologist must be aware of the associated clinical signs: oral and genital ulcerative lesions in the Behçet syndrome; finger necrosis in a young male smoker in Buerger disease; hip and shoulder arthropathy and headache in a 70 Year old female and Horton disease; pulseless upper limbs and inflammatory syndrome in a young adult for the Takayasu arteritis. The diagnosis of popliteal entrapment or adventitial cyst should be proposed in young patients without atheromatous lesions.