The Teaching Files. Brain and Spine (Online and Print)

Description

Practical and clinically focused, Brain and Spine Imaging - a title in the Teaching Files Series - provides you with over 300 interesting and well-presented cases to help you better diagnose any disease of the brain and spine. Expert in the field, Dr. Girish Fatterpekar, MD uses a logical organization throughout, making referencing difficult diagnoses easier than ever before. Detailed discussions of today's modalities and technologies keep you up to date, and challenging diagnostic questions probe your knowledge of the material. This unique, case-based resource offers you an ideal way to sharpen your diagnostic skills and study for board exams. And, with Expert Consult functionality, you'll have convenient access to the full text online, all of the book's illustrations, additional cases and images, and links to PubMed at expertconsult.com.

Key Features

• Get expert, practical guidance from over 300 cases, and brief but thorough descriptions of findings that help you make review easier than ever before.
• Conveniently reference the full text anytime, anywhere online at expertconsult.com, including all of the book's illustrations and links to Medline.
• Test your knowledge by turning image labels on and off.
• Stay current with the most up-to-date radiologic modalities and technologies.
• Provides brief but thorough descriptions of findings putting the information you need at your fingertips.
• Expand your knowledge with references to the most important sources on specific topics of interest.
• Find key information quickly and easily thanks to consistently formatted chapters that include Demographics/Clinical History; Findings; Discussion; Characteristic/Clinical Features; Radiologic Findings; Primary Differential Diagnosis; and Suggested Readings.
• See how to resolve challenging diagnostic questions by reviewing discussions of similar cases.

Table of Contents

PART 1: BRAIN

• Section 1 Disorders of Brain Development
• Subsection 1.1 Disorders of Neural Tube Closure and Diverticulation
• 1 Anencephaly
• 2 Cephalocele
• 3 Atretic Cephalocele
• 4 Holoprosencephaly
• Subsection 1.2 Disorders of Corpus Callosum and Septum Pellucidum
• 5 Agenesis of Corpus Callosum
• 6 Septo-optic Dysplasia
• 7 Cavum Septi Pellucidi and Cavum Vergae
• Subsection 1.3 Disorders of Neuronal Migration
• 8 Lissencephaly
• 9 Polymicrogyria
• 10 Gray Matter Heterotopia
• 11 Schizencephaly
• Subsection 1.4 Chiari Malformation
• 12 Chiari I Malformation
• 13 Chiari II Malformation
• Subsection 1.5 Disorders of the Posterior Fossa
• 14 Rhombencephalosynapsis
• 15 Joubert Malformation
• 16 Dandy-Walker Malformation
• 17 Mega Cisterna Magna
• Subsection 1.6 Disorders of the Pituitary Gland
• 18 Pituitary Aplasia
• 19 Pituitary Duplication
• 20 Posterior Pituitary Ectopia
• Subsection 1.7 Miscellaneous Disorders
• 21 Persistent Open Anterior Fontanelle
• 22 Porencephaly
• 23 Hydranencephaly
• 24 Optic Nerve Hypoplasia

• Section 2 Disorders of the Perinatal Period
• 25 Cephalhematoma
• 26 Caput Succedaneum and Germinal Matrix Hemorrhage
• 27 Periventricular Leukomalacia
• 28 Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
• 29 Kernicterus
• 30 TORCH infections

• Section 3 Metabolic and Neurodegenerative Diseases of Childhood
• Subsection 3.1 Gray Matter Disorders
• 31 Hallervorden-Spatz Disease
• 32 Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy
• Subsection 3.2 White Matter Disorders
• 33 Alexander's Disease
• 34 Canavan Disease
• 35 Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
• Subsection 3.3 Inborn Errors of Intermediary Metabolism
• 36 Propionic Acidemia
• 37 Glutaric Aciduria Type 1
• Subsection 3.4 Lysosomal Diseases
• 38 Fabry Disease
• 39 Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
• 40 Krabbe Disease
• 41 Mucopolysaccharidoses
• Subsection 3.5 Mitochondrial Diseases & Peroxisomal Diseases
• 42 Kearns-Sayre Syndrome
• 43 MELAS
• 44 Leigh Syndrome
• 45 Classic X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy

• Section 4 Phakomatoses/Neurocutaneous syndromes
• 46 Neurofibromatosis Type 1
• 47 Neurofibromatosis Type 2
• 48 Tuberous Sclerosis
• 49 Sturge-Weber Syndrome
• 50 Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome
• 51 Ataxia Telangiectasia
• 52 Neurocutaneous Melanosis

• Section 5 Seizures
• 53 Mesial Temporal Sclerosis
• 54 Hemimegalencephaly
• 55 Focal Cortical Dysplasia of Taylor
• 56 Epileptogenic Focus
• 57 Status Epilepticus

• Section 6 Intracranial Trauma
• 58 Non-accidental Trauma
• 59 Depressed Skull Fracture
• 60 Growing Skull Fracture
• 61 Pneumolabyrinth Secondary to Trauma
• 62 Epidural Hematoma
• 63 Subdural Hematoma
• 64 Contusion
• 65 Coup-contre-coup Injuries
• 66 Diffuse Axonal Injury

• Section 7 Intracranial Vascular Malformations: Congenital and Acquired
• Subsection 7.1 Arterial malformations
• 67 Carotid Agenesis
• 68 Persistent Trigeminal Artery
• 69 Familial Intracranial Aneurysm
• 70 Saccular Aneurysm
• 71 Mycotic Aneurysm
• 72 Dolichoectasia of Basilar Artery
• 73 Moya Moya Disease
• 74 Carotid Artery Dissection
• 75 Carotid Artery Stenosis
• 76 Fibromuscular Dysplasia
• 77 Subclavian Steal Phenomenon
• 78 Arteriovenous Malformation
• 79 Dural Arteriovenous Fistula
• Subsection 7.2 Venous and other vascular malformations
• 80 Developmental Venous Anomaly
• 81 Cavernous Angioma
• 82 Cavernous Hemangioma of Septum Pellucidum
• 83 Familial Cavernous Angiomas
• 84 Capillary Telangiectasias
• 85 Arachnoid Granulations in Venous Sinuses
• 86 Venous Sinus Thrombosis
• 87 Cortical Vein Thrombosis
• 88 Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis
• 89 Vein of Galen Malformation

• Section 8 Stroke
• 90 Acute Arterial Infarction
• 91 Chronic Arterial Infarction
• 92 Lacunar Infarction
• 93 Watershed Infarction
• 94 Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome
• 95 Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL)
• 96 Vasculitis
• 97 Bechet's Syndrome
• 98 Global Anoxic Injury
• 99 Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome
• 100 Venous Infarction
• 101 Brain Death

• Section 9 Intracranial Hemorrhage
• Subsection 9.1 Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage
• 102 Intraparenchymal Hematoma, Benign vs Malignant
• 103 Hemorrhagic Conversion of Infarction
• 104 Hypertensive Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage
• 105 Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
• 106 Remote Cerebellar Hemorrhage
• Subsection 9.2 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
• 107 Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
• 108 Non-aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
• 109 Superficial Siderosis

• Section 10 Hydrocephalus and Pneumocephalus
• 110 Medial diverticulum of Lateral Ventricle
• 111 Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
• 112 Non-communicating Hydrocephalus
• 113 Shunt-related Complications
• 114 Tension Pneumocephalus

• Section 11 Demyelinating Diseases
• 115 Multiple Sclerosis
• 116 Neuromyelitis Optica
• 117 Tumefactive Demyelinating Lesion
• 118 Susac's Syndrome
• 119 Marchiafava-Bignami Disease
• 120 Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
• 121 Acute hemorrhagic encephalomyelitis

• Section 12 Skull Lesions (Non-neoplastic)
• 122 Craniosynostosis
• 123 Bilateral Parietal Thinning

• Section 13 Intracranial Tumors
• Subsection 13.1 Tumors (and Tumor-Like Lesions) of the Scalp, Skull and Cranial nerves
• 124 Scalp Metastasis
• 125 Fibrous Dysplasia
• 126 Paget's Disease
• 127 Osteoma
• 128 Calvarial Hemangioma
• 129 Intradiploic Epidermoid
• 130 Ecchordosis Physaliphora
• 131 Clival Chordoma
• 132 Chondrosarcoma
• 133 Neuroblastoma Metastasis
• 134 Intraosseous Meningioma
• 135 Calvarial Metastasis
• 136 Schwannoma
• 137 Facial Nerve Hemangioma
• 138 Perineural Spread of Tumor
• Subsection 13.2 Tumors (and Tumor-like Lesions) of the meninges
• 139 Intracranial Meningioma
• 140 Intracranial Lipoma
• 141 Hemangiopericytoma
• 142 Meningeal (Dura and Leptomeningeal) Metastasis
• 143 Hypertrophic Pachymeningitis
• Subsection 13.3 Lymphoma and Germ Cell Tumors
• 144 Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
• 145 AIDS-Related Lymphoma
• 146 Secondary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
• 147 Intravascular Lymphoma
• 148 Post-transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder
• 149 Granulocytic Sarcoma
• 150 Germinoma
• 151 Teratoma
• Subsection 13.4 Tumors (and Tumor-like Lesions) of the Sella and Suprasellar compartment
• 152 Pituitary Microadenoma
• 153 Diabetes Insipidus
• 154 Pituitary Macroadenoma
• 155 Pituitary Apoplexy
• 156 Pituitary Carcinoma
• 157 Rathke Cleft Cyst
• 158 Sella Miscellaneous: Sheehan's syndrome
• 159 Craniopharyngioma
• 160 Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis of Pituitary Stalk
• 161 Lymphoc

Author Information

Girish Fatterpekar, MD, Assistant Professor Radiology, NYU Langone Medical Center, Section Neuroradiology, New York, New York