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Spinal Cord Herniation • 10,723 views
This is a case for Prof. Dr. Dillon. It is in press by our neurosurgeons and us, for the use of Duragen. Idiopathic herniation of the thoracic spinal cord: a case report and technique note. U...
Neuro Protocols • 8,067 views
Alisa Gean is doing a great job getting a group together to share and collaborate neuro protocols. This would be a great place from members to share protocols, and open a discussion about the best ima...
Possible SIH with Spinal Subdural Hygroma, What Next? • 6,657 views
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Brachial Plexus MRI Protocol • 5,347 views
BP MRI Protocol Fall is upon us and so is the lecturing season! Like years before, this Fall I will be giving my brachial plexus lecture several times and the most commonly asked question by the au...
Cervical Spine Nomenclature • 5,217 views
The ASNR/ASSR nomenclature document was specific for the lumbar spine. I would be interested in your opinion on the correct terminology for cervical spondylosis: what terms and why. Specifically, t...
Intracranial Hypotension: Advice on Best Treatment • 5,039 views
Middle age female patient diagnosed with Spontaneous intracranial hypotension. Has multiple (approx 23) perineural cysts. Has undergone several blood patches and artificial CSF infusions without rel...
Embolization of Brain Arteriovenous Malformations for Cure • 4,239 views
The editorial comment in the AJNR of Jan 09 by Jayaraman and Cloft is worthy of careful scrutiny, I believe. Although in my personal experience with Onyx and NBCA, final cure rates of brain AVMs from ...
Liver Hemangiomas and Vascular Lesions of the Brain • 4,212 views
[gallery] I have a patient with 15 large liver hemangiomas and two partly calcified lesions in brain. Does anyone know of associated liver hemangiomas and vascular lesions in the brain?
Aunt Mickey (They Look the Same until You Undress Them). Internal Capsule Infarct or Something Else? • 4,144 views
This 30 year old hypertensive female smoker presented with acute onset of right hemiparesis. Her history also included OCP use and dyslipidemia. MRI demonstrated an acute infarct in the posterior limb...
More on DWI of Head and Neck Lesions • 3,979 views
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 pa...
Monthly Archives: May 2009
CT and MRI of the Whole Body, 5th ed, 2-Vol. set
J.R. Haaga, V.S. Dogra, M. Forsting, R.C. Gilkeson, H.K. Ha, and M. Sundaram, eds. Mosby Elsevier; 2008, 2904 pages, $359.00.
Another multiauthored 2-volume 2904-page book is available to those who want a text that encompasses the major facets of diagnostic CT and MR imaging. CT and MRI of the Whole Body, edited by Drs Haaga, Dogra, Forsting, Gilkeson, Ha, and Sundaram distinguishes itself by being inclusive (hence the title Whole Body). However, in this day and age, this reviewer continually wonders about the value of these huge/heavy books that attempt to cover all areas of radiology. More on … Continue reading >>
Pediatric Imaging: The Fundamentals
L.F. Donnelly. Saunders; 2008, 288 pages, 400 illustrations, $47.99.
This 288-page softcover book is written either for those who are starting their training in radiology and pediatric radiology or for those who wish to have a review of pediatric radiology. It is akin to the Essentials course presented at the Radiological Society of North America meeting but goes further than that. It covers all the fields in pediatric radiology (airway, chest, cardiac, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, musculoskeletal, and neurology) and does it by illustrating common entities and describing them well. A resident may wish to read the neuroradiology section before or while … Continue reading >>
Changing Aspects in Stroke Surgery: Aneurysms, Dissections, Moyamoya Angiopathy and EC-IC Bypass
Y. Yonekawa, T. Tsukahara, A. Valavanis, and N. Khan, eds. Springer Wien; 2008, 141 pages, $219.00.
The publication titled Changing Aspects in Stroke Surgery: Aneurysms, Dissections, Moyamoya Angiopathy and EC-IC Bypass is an outline of the proceedings of the Third European-Japanese Joint Conference for Cerebral Stroke Surgery, which was held in conjunction with the 70th Anniversary of the Neurochirurgische UniversitThe publication titled Changing Aspects in Stroke Surgery: Aneurysms, Dissections, Moyamoya Angiopathy and EC-IC Bypass is an outline of the proceedings of the Third European-Japanese Joint Conference for Cerebral Stroke Surgery, which was held in conjunction with the 70th Anniversary of … Continue reading >>
Cerebral Vasospasm: New Strategies in Research and Treatment
T. Kiriş and J.H. Zhang, eds. Springer Wien; 2008, 450 pages, $289.00.
Cerebral vasospasm after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is one of the most difficult problems encountered by the clinicians who take care of these critically ill patients. The etiology of cerebral vasospasm after SAH has been firmly established as a subarachnoid blood clot. Cerebral Vasospasm: New Strategies in Research and Treatment serves well the functions of briefly recapitulating the established knowledge about cerebral vasospasm as it relates to SAH, while also delving deeper into new and ongoing areas of active research in the understanding of delayed ischemic neurologic deficits … Continue reading >>
Clinical Neuroradiology: A Case-Based Approach
G.M. Hathout, Cambridge University Press; 2009, 324 pages, $125.00.
Among the plethora of case review publications, Clinical Neuroradiology: A Case-Based Approach stands out in concept, content, and educational value. Too often “case reviews” are superficial, supply just the minimum of information, and leave the reader with little in-depth knowledge. In contradistinction, Dr. Gasser M. Hathout has drawn together, in a 272-page hardcover book, an excellent series of cases, which is organized as follows: There are 8 chapters (“Cerebellum,” “Medulla,” “Pons,” “Midbrain,” “Basal Ganglia,” “Diencephalon,” “Cerebral Cortex,” and “Stroke-Imaging and Therapy”). Each chapter begins with an anatomic and functional description of … Continue reading >>
Imagining the Elephant: A Biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack
C.L. Vaughn. Imperial College Press; 2008, 324 pages, $50.37.
In our professional readings, it is valuable on occasion to step back from the standard journal articles and textbooks and take a look at the pioneers in medicine and physics to understand the struggles that brought us to our current level of sophistication. Such an insight into the development of CT is available now in the intriguing biography of the Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology, Imagining the Elephant: A Biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack.
Starting from his humble origins in the most northern part of Scotland, John O’Groats, to the … Continue reading >>
Dissection of the Human Brain
L. Heimer. Sinauer Associates; 2007, running time: 2 hours 43 minutes, $75.00.
This DVD, authored by Lennart Heimer, MD, from the University of Virginia, is a demonstration of blunt brain dissection. With a running time of 2 hours and 43 minutes, it is divided into 3 sections. The first section demonstrates the major white matter tracts; the second, surface anatomy and deeper gray matter of the brain; and the third, major pathways such as the corticospinal tracts, sensory pathways, visual system pathways, brain stem, basal ganglionic structures, and the limbic system, among others. In some areas, the dissections are accompanied … Continue reading >>
Multislice CT, 3rd revised ed.
M.F. Reiser, C.R. Becker, K. Nikolaou, et al, eds. Springer; 2009, 628 pages, 982 illustrations, $249.00.
The enormous impact that multisection CT has had on the practice of radiology is evident in this 628-page book, Multislice CT, edited by Drs Reiser, Becker, Nikolaou, and Glazer. Eighty-seven contributing authors have covered sections on techniques (108 pages), neuroimaging (78 pages), cardiovascular imaging (136 pages), lung imaging (56 pages), oncology imaging (104 pages), intervention and CT use (73 pages), and trauma imaging (10 pages). Under “Technique,” one can read about evaluations with CT from the earliest EMI scanner all the way to … Continue reading >>
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine, 4th ed., Vol. 1 and 2
S.W. Atlas, ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2008, 2000 pages, 6800 illustrations, $429.00.
In a major and impressive expansion of his classic Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine, Dr. Scott Atlas, in this fourth edition, has presented the neuroscience community with an in-depth and beautifully illustrated 2-volume (2000 pages) neuroradiology textbook. With 83 contributors, including neuroradiologists, neuropathologists, neurosurgeons, and physicists, one is confronted with a text containing descriptions and illustrations of most entities one would encounter in a practice of neuroradiology. An extra and important feature of this publication is the inclusion of the text as an … Continue reading >>
Duvernoy’s Atlas of the Human Brain Stem and Cerebellum
T.P. Naidich, H.M. Duvernoy, B.N. Delman, et al, eds. Springer; 2009, 876 pages, 1000 illustrations, $439.00.
In a truly remarkable anatomic and MR imaging atlas of the human brain stem and cerebellum, Drs. Thomas Naidich, Henri Duvernoy, Bradley Delman, Gregory Sorensen, Spyros Kollias, and Mark Haacke as editors teamed up with 21 authors to give the neuroscience community a publication that will shortly become a standard in the field of neuroanatomy. The meticulous detail of the ex vivo specimens takes the reader far beyond any previously published work on the MR imaging anatomy of the brain stem, cerebellum, and upper … Continue reading >>