Archive for the ‘Head and Neck’ Category

A middle age woman presented with left progressive proptosis.  A contrast enhanced CT was done and showed enlargement of the left superior ophthalmic vein on the axial plane (see below).  [...]

In the recent paper of Kim et al. [1], the authors attempt for first time to examine the relationship between pharmacokinetic parameters, obtained by dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE)-MRI, of a metastatic [...]

Infantile Hemangioma Propanolol Treatment
You may have heard that Propanolol is currently being used as treatment for some infantile hemangiomas of both types (RICH and NICH).  In this presentation prepared for [...]

This is a one month-old female with congenital hypothyroidism, hypoplasia of the thyroid gland, elevated TSH (eight times normal value), elevated FSH and LH (four times normal values), normal GH, [...]

The article “Is CT Still Useful in the Study Protocol of Retinoblastoma?“, published July 17 in the Publication Preview section of AJNR, confirms that even when high-field MRI is not [...]

We present two cases of cystic lesions in the Meckel’s cave, both of which showed fluid-fluid levels on MR images and are consistent with trigeminal cystic schwannomas.
Fluid-fluid levels are the result [...]

Comment on: L. Saba and G. Mallarini. Window Settings for the Study of Calcified Carotid Plaques with Multidetector CT Angiography. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol first published on March 19, 2009 [...]

This month (Feb. 2009), there is an article in AJNR regarding differentiating cold thryoid nodules as benign vs. malignat on DWI.  link:  http://www.ajnr.org/cgi/content/full/30/2/417.  A similar article by Bozgeyik et al [...]

Here’s another case for the value of DWI for head and neck lesions.
This patient had left central retinal artery occlusion and acute ischemic optic neuropathy. There is restricted diffusion in [...]

I would really appreciate your opinions on the following. We see calcified carotid atheromas (CCA) in the neck on a regular basis as incidental findings in (maxillofacial) cone-beam CT scans [...]