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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: April 2010
Please Help Me with This Case!
An 11-year-old boy was involved in a car accident and presented in a semicomatous state.
Clinically he was diagnosed as having sustained a diffuse axonal injury and was treated conservatively.
A brain MRI was performed one month following injury and a repeat one 1 year later.
Susceptibility WI at the one month interval showed multiple microhemorrhages in both frontal lobes.
The one year follow-up MRI showed diffuse, symmetric, confluent hyperintensities in the periventricular WM and these findings were not present on the initial MRI.
The question is whether the WM changes seen at the one-year follow up study are related to the diffuse axonal injury. … Continue reading >>
Books Received 4/27
MR Imaging of the Abdomen and Pelvis
Bernd Hamm, Gabriel Paul Krestin, Michael Laniado, Volkmar Nicolas, Matthias Taupitz (Authors)
Thieme 2010, 392 pages, 1063 illustrations,$189.95
Modeling Phase Transitions in the Brain, 1st Edition
Series: Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience, Vol. 4
D. Alistair Steyn-Ross; Moira Steyn-Ross (Editors)
Springer 2010, 350 pages, 103 illustrations, $199.00
Intelligence and the Brain: Solving the Mystery of Why People Differ in IQ and How a Child Can Be a Genius
Dennis Garlick (Author)
AESOP Press 2010, 256 pages, 12 illustrations, $ 27.99… Continue reading >>
Cranial Nerves: Anatomy, Pathology, Imaging
Cranial Nerves: Anatomy, Pathology, Imaging. Devin K. Binder, D. Christian Sonne, Nancy J. Fischbein (authors). Thieme 2011, 248 pages, 469 illustrations, $89.95.
In a well illustrated and well laid out format, Drs. Binder, Sonne and Fischbein discuss and illustrate critical issues in evaluating the cranial nerves in their newly published book Cranial Nerves: Anatomy, Pathology, Imaging. This soft cover, 248-page book deals — as one would expect — with each cranial nerve in a separate chapter. In addition to those 12 chapters, there are sections on the brain stem, the pupil, the parasympathetic ganglia, and functional reflexes associated with … Continue reading >>
MRI: The Basics, Third Edition
MRI: The Basics, Third Edition. Ray H. Hashemi, William G. Bradley, Jr., Christopher J. Lisanti (Editors). Wolters Kluwer Health, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2010, 400 pages, 591 illustrations, $64.95.
What this third edition of MRI: The Basics written by Drs. Hashemi, Bradley, and Lisanti shows is that even the basics of MR are complex. This 400-page soft cover book does a fine job of not making the subject matter too complex (limited mathematical formulas) nor too simple (if it were too simple, there would be no foundation for a reasonably in depth understanding of MR and its current and … Continue reading >>
AJNR’s New Special Collection and Podcast Survey Brain Tumor Imaging
“Brain Tumor Imaging, Volume 1: Pretherapy” is the latest Special Collection from the American Journal of Neuroradiology. Distilling the best of the many articles related to brain tumor imaging that appear in the pages of AJNR posed a daunting task, but Editor-in-Chief Mauricio Castillo knew that Collection Editor Soonmee Cha of the University of California, San Francisco would be successful. “Dr. Cha is a respected investigator, a contributor of high quality and clinically relevant articles to AJNR and other journals, and a member of our Editorial Board,” he explained. Dr. Cha chose to categorize and present this compilation of research … Continue reading >>
Practical MR Physics and Case File of MR Artifacts and Pitfalls
Practical MR Physics and Case File of MR Artifacts and Pitfalls. Alexander C. Mamourian. Oxford University Press 2010, 320 pages, 375 illustrations, $59.95.
A newly published 320-page soft cover book Practical MR Physics written by Dr. Mamourian strives to make the physics of MR understandable (as seen through the eyes of a neuroradiologist), categorize various MR artifacts, and demonstrate pitfalls (that is, findings on MR which are not artifacts but which potentially could lead one to believe they represented abnormal/pathologic findings). The book ends with what are termed puzzlers (10 cases, 7 of them are neuro based), and this … Continue reading >>
CT perfusion for stroke: 2 questions
1. I have read that it is OK to do the CT Perfusion study either before or after the CTA (AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2008 29: e23-e30). I have always done the CTA first, but I would like to know what other people are doing, and what the relevant considerations are.
2. Is 80 the optimal kVp for the perfusion study?
Thanks… Continue reading >>
ASNR 48th Annual Meeting – Rooms Still Available; Registration Open
ASNR 48th Annual Meeting – Rooms are still available and Registration is still open!
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Highlights of the Meeting
ASNR 48th Annual Meeting and NER Foundation Symposium 2010
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Darrell G. Kirch, … Continue reading >>
AJNR’s Case of the Week: Upcoming Improvements
The Case of the Week feature at AJNR.ORG is now established as an important educational activity with up the 10,000 views every month. Thus I have asked Dr. Girish Fatterpekar from Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC to serve as Editor for it and I am glad that he has accepted this challenge. Girish is already working on improving the format of the COWs with the purpose of packing in more information/education into them while retaining their simplicity and ease of navigation. Additionally, he will be in charge of putting all of the cases posted every year into the form of … Continue reading >>
EEG-fMRI: Physiological Basis, Technique, and Applications
EEG-fMRI: Physiological Basis, Technique, and Applications. Christoph Mulert and Louise Lemieux (Editors). Springer 2010, 529 pages, 142 illustrations, $179.00.
This textbook covers advancing field of multimodal data acquisition strategies, giving detailed technical challenges that need to be overcome in order to study brain function. EEG-fMRI: Physiological Basis, Technique, and Applications is a well written and comprehensive book on the state of the art technology that combines EEG and fMRI as an invaluable tool to study brain function. The book is primarily based on combining EEG data which provides very high temporal information but it lacks spatial information which can … Continue reading >>