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Neuroradiology: Key Differential Diagnoses and Clinical Questions

  • 2nd Edition -
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Juan E. Small, Pamela W. Schaefer, Asha Sarma, Paul Bunch
  • Language: English

Make efficient, accurate diagnoses and prepare for imaging exams with a multitude of differential diagnoses accompanied by hundreds of high-quality, unknown cases in… Read more

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Make efficient, accurate diagnoses and prepare for imaging exams with a multitude of differential diagnoses accompanied by hundreds of high-quality, unknown cases in neuroradiology. Neuroradiology: Key Differential Diagnoses and Clinical Questions, 2nd Edition, helps you master the skills you need for interpreting imaging of the head, neck, brain and spine for adults and children. All-new cases and extensively revised content throughout bring you up to date and equip you to reach a definitive diagnosis for common, complex, and rare cases.

Key features

  • Applies pattern analysis techniques to distinguish similar-looking diagnostic considerations
  • Shows how diagnostic ambiguities are resolved by comparing and contrasting different entities
  • Includes numerous new differential diagnoses
  • Provides new and extensively revised content on pediatric neuroradiology, including more complex cases such as symmetric diffusion abnormality in an infant, cortical malformations, and complex spinal dysraphism
  • Helps you avoid diagnostic pitfalls by recognizing significant variations in the clinical presentation of different diseases
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Readership

General radiologists trainees, neuroradiologists trainees

Table of contents

Part 1 Brain and Coverings

1 Computed Tomography Hyperdense Lesions

2 T1 Hyperintense Lesions

3 Multiple Susceptibility Artifact Lesions

4 Lobar Hemorrhage

5 Multifocal White Matter Lesions

6 Multiple Small Diffuse-Weighted Imaging Hyperintensities

7 Cortical Restricted Diffusion

8 Ring-Enhancing Lesions

9 Punctate and Curvilinear Enhancing Foci

10 Leptomeningeal Enhancement

11 Dural Enhancement

12 Lesions Containing Fat

13 Dural-Based Extraaxial Lesions

14 Bilateral Central Gray Matter Abnormality

15 Temporal Lobe Lesions

16 Temporal Lobe Cystic Lesions

17 Multicystic Lesions

18 Cerebellopontine Angle Cisterns

19 Lateral Ventricular Lesions

20 Third Ventricular Lesions

21 Fourth Ventricular Lesions

22 Suprasellar Cystic Lesions

23 Pineal Region

24 Cranial Nerve Lesions

25 Lytic Skull Lesions

26 Skull Fracture Versus Sutures

27 Clivus Lesions

28 Hyperdense Cerebellum

29 Low-Lying Cerebellar Tonsils

30 T2 Hyperintense Pontine Lesions

31 Epidermoid Versus Arachnoid Cyst

32 Cyst With a Mural Nodule

33 Ecchordosis Physaliphora Versus Chordoma

Part 2 Spine

34 Atlantooccipital and Atlantoaxial Separation

35 Basilar Invagination and Platybasia

36 Focal Cord Deformities

37 Spinal Cord Metabolic/Demyelinating Processes

38 Enhancing Intramedullary Spinal Cord Lesions

39 Enhancing Intramedullary Conus Lesions

40 Hemorrhagic Intramedullary Lesion

41 Solitary Enhancing Intradural, Extramedullary Lesions

42 Multiple Enhancing Intradural, Extramedullary Lesions

43 Cystic Intradural Extramedullary Lesions

44 Nerve Root Enlargement

45 Extramedullary Abnormal Vessels

46 Epidural Rim-Enhancing Lesion

47 Vertebral Anomalies

48 Single Aggressive Vertebral Body Lesion

49 Posterior Element Lesions

50 Multiple Lytic Lesions of the Spine

51 Sacral Masses

52 Disk Infection Versus Inflammatory/Degenerative Changes

53 Vertebral Compression Fractures

Part 3 Head and Neck

54 Periauricular Cystic Lesions

55 Cystic Lateral Neck Masses

56 Infrahyoid Neck Cystic Lesions

57 Parapharyngeal Space Masses

58 Carotid Space Masses

59 Floor of Mouth Lesions

60 Thyroglossal Duct Abnormalities

61 Primary Hyperparathyroidism

62 Masses Involving the Anterior Cranial Fossa

63 Petrous Apex Lesions

64 Lesions of the External Auditory Canal

65 Cochlear Promontory Lesions

66 Incomplete Partition and Other Cochlear Anomalies

67 Lucent Otic Capsule Lesions

68 Lesions of the Facial Nerve

69 Labyrinthine Enhancement

70 Lucent Jaw Lesions

71 Temporomandibular Joint Mineralized Lesions

72 Jugular Foramen Lesions

73 Optic Nerve Mass

74 Cavernous Sinus Masses

75 Dilated Superior Ophthalmic Vein/Asymmetric Cavernous Sinus Enhancement

76 Adult Globe Lesions

77 Orbital Masses

78 Lacrimal Gland Lesions

79 Extraocular Muscle Enlargement

80 Nasal Cavity Masses

81 Solitary Parotid Masses

82 Bilateral Parotid Lesions

83 Retropharyngeal Space Abnormalities

84 Cranial Nerve Denervation Patterns Part 1: III–VI

85 Cranial Nerve Denervation Patterns Part 2: VII–XII

Part 4 Pediatric Neuroradiology

86 Intraventricular Posterior Fossa Tumors

87 Pediatric Cerebellar Tumors

88 Pediatric Extraaxial Posterior Fossa Tumors

89 Midline Posterior Fossa Extraaxial Cystic Lesions

90 Pediatric Supratentorial Intraaxial Malignancies

91 Occipital Cephalocele

92 Congenital Brainstem Abnormalities

93 Congenital Cerebellar Abnormalities

94 Holoprosencephaly

95 Corpus Callosum Abnormalities

96 Symmetric Diffusion Abnormality in an Infant

97 Abnormal Ventricular Morphology

98 Periventricular Nodularity

99 Congenital Fluid-Filled Cranial Vault

100 Asymmetric Cerebral Hemispheres

101 Cortical Malformations

102 Hippocampal and Perihippocampal Lesions

103 Leukodystrophies

104 Congenital Infections

105 Congenital Arterial Anastomosis

106 Spinal Dysraphism

107 Complex Spinal Dysraphism

108 Pediatric T2 Hyperintense Spinal Cord Lesion

109 Odontoid: Acute Versus Chronic Fragmentation

110 Pediatric Nasofrontal Mass

111 Pediatric Globe Lesions

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 18, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Juan E. Small

Juan E. Small, MD is the Section Chief of the Neuroradiology Division and the Director of Neuroimaging Education at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts. He is the lead author of Neuroradiology: Key Differential Diagnoses and Clinical Questions. Dr. Small joined Lahey in 2009 after completing his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in Boston; a Master’s in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford; a radiology residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and a neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Small is board certified in diagnostic radiology and neuroradiology.
Affiliations and expertise
Section Chief, Neuroradiology, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA

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Pamela W. Schaefer

Dr. Pamela Schaefer is an associate radiologist and associate director in the Division of Neuroradiology, clinical director of MRI services in the Department of Radiology and program director of the Neuroradiology Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Director of Neuroradiology, Clinical Director of MRI, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Asha Sarma

Asha Sarma, MD, is a honors graduate of Dartmouth College and earned her medical degree at the University of Utah. She completed a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, during which she served as chief resident and received a resident teaching award, and fellowships in Pediatric Radiology and Pediatric Neuroradiology at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sarma joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2018.

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Paul Bunch

Paul M. Bunch, MD, is an Associate Professor of Radiology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Before joining Wake Forest, Dr. Bunch completed his radiology residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and his neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. His primary clinical and research interests relate to head and neck imaging, including head and neck cancer, primary hyperparathyroidism, head and neck anatomy, and dual-energy CT. Dr. Bunch serves on the Editorial Board of RadioGraphics and is also actively involved with the American College of Radiology, the American Society of Neuroradiology, and the American Society of Head and Neck Radiology.

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Radiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA