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Hi, can someone explain what prominent vascular grooves on a skull x-ray means? thanks?
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When a blood vessel transverses through the skull or along its surface it will produce a recognizable groove. By itself the wording is just the radiologist providing written evidence they looked at the films and noticed it. The ordering doctor does not like a simple "normal study" interpretation. I would clarify this with your doc who knows why the study was done.
Answered 5/12/2022
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It's more of a descriptive term of what the radiologist is seeing. It does not mean that this is necessarily an abnormality which needs attention.
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