By Patricio S. Espinosa MD MPH, Charles D. Smith MD
ISBN-10: 0781799120
ISBN-13: 9780781799126
This leading edge case-based question-and-answer research advisor to neuroradiology is geared to neurology and neurosurgery citizens, clinical scholars, and resident graduates getting ready for the neurology and neuroradiology forums. The e-book offers one zero one situations from grownup neurology, pediatric neurology, and neurosurgery perform masking all significant neuroradiology themes. every one case starts off with a number of high-resolution pictures, a short background, and questions, with solutions and special motives at the subsequent web page. situations are awarded in random order, instead of grouped by means of type, in order that readers will method each one case snapshot with out past clue to the prognosis. The situations, questions, and solutions can also be to be had on a significant other web site .
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Neurocysticercosis e. Central nervous system (CNS) toxoplasmosis 1. (B) The differential diagnosis of ring enhancing lesions of the brain depends on the immunologic status and social history of patients (see Case 14). In this case, this healthy young female had a typical presentation of multiple sclerosis. 1 2. 1 are pointing to: a. Multiple sclerosis ring enhancing lesions b. Metastatic enhancing lesions c. Enhancing abscesses d. Enhancing cystic lesions 2. (A) T1-weighted imaging with contrast reveals two enhancing lesions in the supratentorial white matter with an â– open rimâ– appearance, for example, the rim or ring of enhancement is incomplete and C shaped.
1 Hypertensive Hemorrhages versus Hemorrhagic Transformation of Ischemic Stroke Finding Hypertensive Hemorrhage Hemorrhagic Transformation MCA = middle cerebral artery; DWI = diffusion weighted imaging; TPA = tissue plasminogen activator. 33 References 1. Goetz CG. Textbook of clinical neurology. Philadelphia: WB Saunders; 2007. 2. Broderick J, Connolly S, Feldmann E, et al. Guidelines for the management of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage in adults: 2007 update: A guideline from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Stroke Council, High Blood Pressure Research Council, and the Quality of Care and Outcomes in Research Interdisciplinary Working Group.
Lipoma e. Hamartoma 1. (A) The cause of this patient's symptoms is pituitary macroadenoma. Pituitary adenomas with a diameter greater than 1 cm are called macroadenomas and those under 1 cm are called microadenomas. The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain T1-weighted (Fig. 0 cm pituitary mass with a suprasellar component displacing the surrounding structures. There is invasion into the right cavernous sinus with encasement of the intracavernous carotid artery. The pituitary may reach heights of up to 12 mm in postpartum females, not the case here, and there is abnormal focal enhancement.