Archive for September, 2009

Imaging Cong & Acq Hearing Loss (FILEminimizer) Here is another educational presentation.  It was shown at a previous ASNR meeting and authored by our Neuroradiology fellows of the time.  It deals with the imaging aspects [...]

This is the latest in my series of posts titled Annotated Bibliography, that is, current literature titles which are generally not from the mainstream Radiology journals, but rather from related neuroscience fields which I have [...]

This article references: Gallas S, Januel AC, Pasco A, et al. Long-Temr Follow-Up of 1036 Cerebral Aneurysms Treated by Bare Colis: A Multicentric Cohort Treated between 1998 and 2003. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol first published [...]

Does the insurance company require the certification of neurointerventionist for payment of the interventional procedure? I’m an interventional neuroradiologist in South Korea. Korea’s health insurance service inquired of the Korean Society of Interventional Neuroradiology what [...]

Arthritis in Color: Advanced Imaging of Arthritis. M.A. Bruno, T.J. Mosher, and G.E. Gold, eds. Saunders Elsevier; 2009, 240 pages, 220 illustrations, $99.00. One of the burgeoning topics in medicine today is the treatment and [...]

Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging of the Brain. T. Moritani, S. Ekholm, and P.-L. Westesson, eds. Springer; 2009, 402 pages, 700 illustrations, $189.00. In an expanded second edition of their clinically important book Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging of [...]

Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery, Vol. 34. J.D. Pickard, N. Akalan, C. Di Rocco, V.V. Dolenc, J. Lobo Antunes,  J.J.A. Mooij, J. Schramm, and M. Sindou, eds. New York: Springer Wien; 2009, 206 pages, [...]

HIV and the Brain: New Challenges in the Modern Era (Current Clinical Neurology). R.H. Paul, N.C. Sacktor, V. Valcour, and K.T. Tashima, eds. Totowa, New Jersey: Humana Press; 2009, 400 pages, 10 illustrations, $139.00. This [...]

EXPERT ddx Brain and Spine. A. Osborn, J. Ross, K. Salzman, J. Crim, B. Borg, K. Moore, L. Shah, M. Jhaveri, B. Hamilton, S. Blaser, and G. Katzman., eds. Amirsys; 2009, 1000 pages, 3300 illustrations, [...]

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 [...]