Archive for the ‘Educational Presentations’ Category

Educational Presentation: Spinal Cord Tumors in NF-1 and NF-2

Posted on September 2nd, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 12 views

Here is a nice and concise overview of the most common spinal cord tumors found in patients with neurofibromatosis types 1 and 2.  Although we are all familiar with astrocytomas and ependymomas, we know less [...]

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Educational presentation: septo-optic dysplasia

Posted on August 24th, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 76 views

Here is a nice, concise presentation on SOD.  Although this is not an uncommon entity it may be sometimes confusing.  I hope that trainees as well as neuroradiologists will enjoy and find it helpful. SOD [...]

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Hirayama disease: a short review

Posted on August 12th, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 97 views

For some reason, lately we have gotten several requests to perform flexion MRI studies of the cervical spine to rule out Hirayama disease.  Here is a short presentation that one of our fellows, Dr. Janica [...]

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Educational Presentation: Diffuse Cerebral Angiopathies, A Review

Posted on June 23rd, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 247 views

Proliferative Angiopathies (NXPowerLite) Here is another educational presentation.  We presented this electronic exhibit at this years ASNR meeting Boston.  Although we are all familiar with moyamoya as a type of  angiopathy,  proliferative and hemorrhagic angiopathies [...]

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educational presentation: atypical features in pres

Posted on June 7th, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 206 views

Atypical PRES (PPT) Here is another presentation that I hope our readers and visitors will find useful and enjoy.  We presented this as an “exhibit” at the past meeting of ASNR.  The presentation deals with [...]

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Educational presentation: ALS

Posted on May 25th, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 198 views

To continue with the education activities in our blog here is another Powerpoint presentation.  The author of this one is a fellow here with us in Neuroradiology at UNC.  Although short, I hope that all [...]

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educational presentation: interesting spine cases

Posted on March 18th, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 378 views

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. Interesting Spine Cases (PPT)

Educational presentation: CTA pitfalls in acute infarction

Posted on March 2nd, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 406 views

Pitfalls of CT Angiography for Acute Stroke (FILEminimizer) Here is my weekly educational contribution to the blog.  This presentation was put together by one of previous fellows and shown at a previous ASNR annual meeting.  [...]

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Educational presentation: CNS and head and neck teratomas

Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 418 views

Teratomas (NXPowerLite) Here is the next educational presentation. This was also done by some of my previous fellows.  The topic is a bit unusual, but I think that the presentation is very good and should [...]

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Educational Presentation: Fungal Sinusitis

Posted on January 25th, 2010 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 381 views

In this nice presentation, one our of ex fellows in Neuroradiology, Dr. Martin, discusses the imaging findings of the different types of fungal diseases affecting the paranasal sinuses and their clinical presentations.  This can be [...]