Carotid angiography in cerebral metastases

Carotid angiography was performed in 138 cases of brain metastases. No pathologic vascularity was found in 55 per cent, pathologic arterial phase in 10 per cent, capillary phase in 14 per cent and pathologic venous phase in 12 per cent. In six cases, pathologic vascularity was found in all three phases; five of these were hypernephromas.