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Spinal Cord Herniation • 10,146 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 • 7,715 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? • 6,341 views
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Cervical Spine Nomenclature • 5,060 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...
Brachial Plexus MRI Protocol • 4,646 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...
Intracranial Hypotension: Advice on Best Treatment • 4,485 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 • 4,180 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 ...
Aunt Mickey (They Look the Same until You Undress Them). Internal Capsule Infarct or Something Else? • 3,892 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...
Liver Hemangiomas and Vascular Lesions of the Brain • 3,871 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?
More on DWI of Head and Neck Lesions • 3,870 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: March 2010
Interventional Neuroradiology: Now in MEDLINE
Most of you know that last year AJNR entered a cooperative agreement with Interventional Neuroradiology (IN). Since AJNR accepts very few case reports and technical notes, we encourage the authors of these types of articles to send them to our “sister” journal, IN. Many prospective authors can rest assured that their articles will be thoroughly and fairly evaluated by Dr. Karel terBrugge and his editorial team. Through the efforts of Dr. Marco Leonardi who publishes IN the journal is now indexed in MEDLINE making it more important, relevant, and useful. IN is now in its 15th year of publication and … Continue reading >>
Handbook of Neurosurgery, 7th edition
Handbook of Neurosurgery, 7th edition. Mark S. Greenberg (author). Thieme 2010, 1,352 pages, $99.95.
In a marked enlargement of his sixth edition of the Handbook of Neurosurgery, Dr. Mark Greenberg has provided in this seventh edition a comprehensive and highly useful and readable (albeit with very small font size) review of neurosurgery. Now at 1352 pages (vs 1013 in the prior edition), this soft cover book is designed perfectly to carry in a lab coat. Clearly the intent here is not produce images or to teach one to read MRs or CTs, but rather to teach the basics … Continue reading >>
Chest Radiographic Interpretation in Pediatric Cardiac Patients
Chest Radiographic Interpretation in Pediatric Cardiac Patients. Shin-Joon Yoo, Cathy MacDonald, Paul Babyn, eds. Thieme, 2010, 317 pages, 420 illustrations, $99.95.
Despite advances in cross sectional evaluation of cardiovascular system over the past decades, radiographic evaluation of the pediatric cardiac patient remains an important component of both the initial as well as the follow up evaluation due to its relative ease of use and convenience. Chest radiographs are still an important component of initial evaluation as well as throughout follow up of the pediatric cardiac patient. Radiologists need to be familiar with the cardiac anatomy, function, and congenital heart … Continue reading >>
Pediatric CNS Tumors, 2nd Edition
Pediatric CNS Tumors, 2nd Edition. Nalin Gupta, Anuradha Banerjee, Daphne Haas-Kogan (Editors). Springer 2010, 357 pages, 85 illustrations, $199.00.
Pediatric CNS Tumors is a comprehensive outline of pediatric cranial and intramedullary spinal tumors with a particular emphasis on various treatment strategies and outcome for each common tumor type. This is the 2nd edition of the prior successful 1st edition of Pediatric CNS Tumors. The second edition includes new chapters on embryonal tumors, rare tumor types, and a chapter on palliative care. Advances in treatment and current therapeutic agents under development are also discussed.
Overall, the … Continue reading >>
Aunt Mickey (They Look the Same until You Undress Them). Meningioma or Something Else?
73 year old lady presented with six weeks history of odd behavior, increasing apathy, expressive aphasia, and mild headache. An MRI including diffusion and perfusion imaging was obtained. MRI revealed a T1 hypointense (to cortex) and slightly T2 hyperintense (to cortex) extra-axial mass in the left frontal region. There were multiple central T2 hyperintense areas. On post contrast T1 weighted sequence, there was intense enhancement of the mass except the central T2 hyperintense areas.There were prominent diffusion restriction and high rCBV in most parts of the tumor in diffusion and perfusion imaging respectively.
At this point, what is your diagnosis? … Continue reading >>
Duluth Clinic
Position: Neurointerventional radiology. [View PDF] Continue reading
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Position: Standard neuro instructor. [View PDF] Continue reading
Educational Presentation: Interesting Spine Cases
This short series of spine interesting cases was presented at a previous meeting of the ASSR. Test yourself or use it for a short review with your residents and/or fellows.
Functional Cerebral SPECT and PET Imaging
Functional Cerebral SPECT and PET Imaging. Ronald L Van Heertum, Ronald S Tikofsky, Masanori Ichise (editors). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2010, Philadelphia, 480 pages, 900 illustrations, $229.00.
A full decade has passed since the previous (third) edition of Functional Cerebral SPECT and PET Imaging. During this interval, significant growth in molecular imaging with a focus on new tracer development and advances in instrumentation and image processing has altered the field dramatically. More sensitive and specific radiopharmaceutical imaging biomarkers coupled with the capabilities of higher spatial and temporal resolution, multimodality imaging, and motion correction have enhanced both the research and … Continue reading >>
Hotlight: A Cool New Feature for AJNR
We are happy to announce that starting on March 19th, AJNR will be enhanced with the Hotlight feature. This nifty addition allows readers to instantly retrieve medical images (from the ARRS Goldminer program), journal articles (from PubMed), and view terms and their definitions (from MeSH and RadLex). How does it work? It is simple:
-When you are viewing an article on hypertext form (HTML) simply highlight the term you want to search (remember that Hotlight only works when viewing articles on the HTML format),
-if this highlighted term is in the database a “lightbulb” icon will show up beside it,… Continue reading >>