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. 2018 Mar 20;8(1):21. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics8010021

Table 2.

Investigations in ATOS, VTOS, and NTOS.

TOS Subtype Definite Role Possible Role Emerging Role
All Plain radiography (chest/cervical spine)
Non-contrast CT/MRI [5,27]
- -
ATOS Duplex ultrasound
Contrast arteriography
Finger plethysmography [5]
CT/MR arteriography with provocative manoeuvres [5,26,28,29,30] -
VTOS Duplex ultrasound [5,12,31]
CT/MR venography [32]
Contrast venography [33]
CT/MR venography with provocative manoeuvres [5,26,28] -
NTOS Nerve conduction studies
Needle electromyography [5,34]
Local anaesthetic injection test [5,35,36,37,38]
- MR neurography [39,40]
Diffusion tensor imaging [41,42,43,44,45]
Brachial plexus ultrasound [46,47]