Posts Tagged ‘orbit’

Aunt Mickey (they look the same until you undress them). Carotid-cavernous fistula or something else?

Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 546 views

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).  A coronal image confirmed this [...]

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Propanolol as treatment for infantile hemangiomas

Posted on October 19th, 2009 by Mauricio Castillo, Univ of North Carolina | 472 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 [...]

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CT Still Useful for Retinoblastoma?

Posted on July 19th, 2009 by Erin Schwartz, CHOP/Penn Medicine | 786 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 [...]

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RE: DWI for head and neck lesions – acute ischemic optic neuropathy

Posted on February 10th, 2009 by Jenny Hoang, Duke University Medical Center | 853 views

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 the anterior left optic nerve [...]

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