Tag Archives: Brain

Educational Presentation: ALS

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 of you find it interesting and useful.

ALS (PPT)… Continue reading >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

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Educational Presentation: CNS and Head and Neck Teratomas

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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 help our readers.… Continue reading >>

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Mass in Septum Pellucidum

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Does anyone know what this mass could be? It was biopsied 2 years ago and pathology reported it as  “normal brain tissue”.

As you can see, the lesion is hyperintense on T2, hypointense on T1 and does not enhance.  No calcifications are present and no there is no restricted diffusion .

The patient is 25  year old and has loss of short term memory and seizures.

Any input into the nature of the mass is welcome.… Continue reading >>

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Incomplete Ring Sign?

How confidently can one diagnose demyelination with the incomplete ring sign? As opposed to infectious/inflammatory lesions?… Continue reading >>

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