Archive for January, 2009

If anyone has examples of thoracic cord herniation, I would like to review.. Have a theory about their genesis I want to explore.. History would be nice too.. Bill Dillon

Yesterday I wrote a short comment in the utility of DWI in the evaluation of head and neck lesions. While reading cases in the afternoon I came across a new patient with a retinoblastoma.  This [...]

Fellow’s choices:
G. Zuccoli, D. Santa Cruz, M. Bertolini, A. Rovira, M. Gallucci, C. Carollo, and N. Pipitone
MR Imaging Findings in 56 Patients with Wernicke Encephalopathy: Nonalcoholics May Differ from Alcoholics.
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol first published [...]

Last year’s usage summary showed that:

AJNR’s website had over 8.25 million visits during 2008.
Over 4.5 million articles were electronically downloaded (full text-HTML was the preferred format).
Nearly 2 million abstracts were downloaded.
Nearly 1 million article searches [...]

We strive to publish 2-3 review articles in each issue of AJNR.  Two of them are generally related to clinical/medical neuroradiology while one is deals with the physics pertaining to the imaging techniques that we [...]

Fellows Journal Club:
A.T. Vertinsky, N.E. Schwartz, N.J. Fischbein, J. Rosenberg, G.W. Albers, and G. Zaharchuk
Comparison of Multidetector CT Angiography and MR Imaging of Cervical Artery Dissection
http://www.ajnr.org/cgi/content/full/29/9/1753
My impression is that most of us use either CTA [...]

Editor’s choices:
Characterization of aneurysm remnants after… by R. Agid et al.
It is well known that many aneurysms will be incompletely occluded by coils initially or will later recanalize. A non-invasive method would be ideal to [...]

Editor’s choice:

1. Weon
Since the best protocol to identify these abnormalities has not been established, the authors studied 16 patients with transient global amnesia using different b-values and slice thickness. They found that protocols using the [...]

Renal Safety of CT Angiography and Perfusion Imaging in the Emergency Evaluation of Acute Stroke ● J.J. Hopyan, D.J. Gladstone, G. Mallia, J. Schiff, A.J. Fox, S.P. Symons, B.H. Buck, S.E. Black, and R.I. Aviv
http://www.ajnr.org/cgi/content/full/29/10/1826
With [...]

In the January issue of AJNR you will find a nice article on the use of DWI for differentiating between orbital inflammatory and lymphoid lesions.  Other articles, already published in AJNR or listed in our [...]