Archive for August, 2009

We would like to announce and provide meeting information on behalf of the 19th Meeting of the Australian & New Zealand Society of Neuroradiology combined with the 9th Meeting of Asian-Australasian Federation of Interventional and [...]

Starting Monday, August 31, when you visit AJNR.ORG you will find our new weekly activity: question and poll.  Every Monday we will post a new question and our visitors can vote on an answer.  These [...]

A young female presented to an outside hospital with headache of one day duration. An MR brain study was done and interpreted as showing acute subarachnoid hemorrhage in the right temporal/occipital region.  The patient was [...]

Please click this link for some preliminary information regarding ASNR’s 48th Annual Meeting in Boston.

The Neurological Manifestations of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiency Syndromes. L.L. Barton and N.R. Friedman, eds. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2008, 421 pages, 21 illustrations, $139.00.
Although not a book with wide appeal for neuroradiolo­gists, [...]

The Use of Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenic Protein in Posterior Interbody Fusions of the Lumbar Spine, J Spinal Disord Tech 2009;22:315–320.  Anterior, posterolateral and transforaminal approaches have shown good outcomes with this stuff, and this [...]

Imaging in Acute Torticollis (NXPowerLite)
As promised, here is another educational exhibit that deals with the imaging of a common clinical problem: torticollis.  As with the previous one, this was already presented at an ASNR meeting. [...]

G.T. Manley, C. Hemphill, and S. Stiver, eds. New York: Springer Wien; 2009, 448 pages, 150 illustrations, $359.00.
This 440-page volume from Springer, which is published as a supplement to Acta Neurochirurgica, consists of the proceedings [...]

M. Forsting and I. Wanke, eds, Springer; 2008, 297 pages, 682 illustrations, $199.00.
Springer has renewed another classic text in the Medical Radiology/Diagnostic Imaging series with the 2008 second edition of Intracranial Vascular Malformations and [...]

Editor’s Choices
Placement of Covered Stents for the Treatment of Direct Carotid Cavernous Fistulas • C. Wang, X. Xie, C. You, C. Zhang, M. Cheng, M. He, H. Sun, and B. Mao
Endovascular treatment of [...]