Archive for the ‘Pediatrics’ Category
Posted on October 19th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 473 views
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 our weekly case conference by [...]
Tags: Congenital abnormalities Head and Neck orbit treatment related issues
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Posted on August 11th, 2009 by Marcela Posada, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 717 views
This is a 2 day-old term baby with history of methotrexate exposure during first trimester as an abortion attempt. No other relevant clinical history. [...]
Tags: Congenital abnormalities
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Posted on July 26th, 2009 by Alfonso CERASE, Unit of Neuroimaging and Neurointervention, Department of Neurosciences Az. Osp. Univ. Senese, Policlinico "Santa Maria alle Scotte", Siena, Italy | 889 views
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, without diabetes insipid. She is [...]
Tags: pituitary
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Posted on July 19th, 2009 by Erin Schwartz, CHOP/Penn Medicine | 789 views
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 available, CT can be avoided [...]
Tags: neuro mri protocols orbit techniques CT and MR
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Posted on February 17th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 923 views
Arterial spin labeling perfusion is becoming an important clinical tool. We find it particularly useful in children in whom it is difficult to obtain contrast enhanced MR perfusion due to the smaller size of needles [...]
Tags: Congenital abnormalities Cortical Dysplasia Perfusion MR
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Posted on February 5th, 2009 by Orit Glenn, ucsf | 966 views
I was wondering how many sites are doing fetal MRI, and who is interpreting the images (neuroradiologists, pedi neuroradiologists, other radiologists, perinatologists, pedi neurosurgeons). If you do fetal MRI at your site (academics or private [...]
Tags: fetal mri
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Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 435 views
There is a very nice article on this very uncommon malformation in AJNR 2009; 30: 113. We have only seen it in patients being screened for congenital sensorineural hearing loss. In these patients, its severity [...]
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