Archive for the ‘Brain’ Category
Posted on August 19th, 2010 by Jeffrey Ross, Barrow Neurological Institute | 53 views
1. Marawar S, Girardi FP et al. National Trends in Anterior Cervical Fusion Procedures. Spine 2010;35:1454–1459. An 8-fold increase in prevalence and a similar increase in utilization of ACDF in the study population over a [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2010 by Max Wintermark, UVA | 185 views
posted by Michael H. Lev and Max Wintermark Every year in the United States, more than three quarters of a million people have a stroke, and approximately every 3 minutes someone dies from a stroke. [...]
Tags: CT perfusion radiation dose
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Posted on July 16th, 2010 by , Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy | 231 views
Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is now a fairly well known syndrome. Leakage of CSF is considered the pathogenetic factor, even in cases in which it is not demonstrated. The loss of CSF volume explains the [...]
Tags: Brain-Intracranial hypotension
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Posted on May 19th, 2010 by Jeffrey Ross, Barrow Neurological Institute | 231 views
1. Samartzis D et al. Atlantoaxial Rotatory Fixation in the Setting of Associated Congenital Malformations. Spine 2010;35:E119–E127. New subtypes to the Fielding and Hawkins classification scheme for atlantoaxial rotatory fixation should exist to account for [...]
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Posted on April 28th, 2010 by Chang-Woo Ryu, East-West Neo Medical Center | 397 views
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 [...]
Tags: Brain Pediatrics white matter
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Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 323 views
“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 [...]
Tags: Brain brain tumors Editorial aspects Education MRI Perfusion MR
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Posted on April 12th, 2010 by Donald Price, Winthrop-University Hospital | 448 views
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 [...]
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Posted on March 26th, 2010 by Asim Bag, UAB, Birmingham, AL | 926 views
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) [...]
Tags: Diffusion imaging meningioma Perfusion imaging Primary CNS lymphoma
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Posted on February 8th, 2010 by Jeffrey Ross, Barrow Neurological Institute | 402 views
1. Focal cortical dysplasia type II: biological features and clinical perspectives. Lancet Neurol 2009; 8: 830–43 Very nice review article with histopathology, imaging and helpful graphics 2. Neuro-Behçet’s disease: epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and management. Lancet [...]
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Posted on January 15th, 2010 by Asim Bag, UAB, Birmingham, AL | 631 views
51 year old lady presented with headache and gait disturbances. An MRI including perfusion imaging was obtained. MRI revealed an extra-axial, dural based mass of the posterior fossa which was isointense to gray matter on [...]
Tags: Perfusion MR
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