INFECTIOUS AND NONINFECTIOUS INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS: REACTIVE BONY CHANGES, OSTEITIS, OSTEONECROSIS, AND OSTEOMYELITIS ANTHONY A. MANCUSO KEY POINTS Bony reactions and erosive changes are common to many different pathologic processes and…
DEVELOPMENTAL ABNORMALITIES OF THE EXTERNAL AND MIDDLE EAR (AURAL ATRESIAS) AND CRANIAL NERVE VII BERIT M. VERBIST, ANTHONY A. MANCUSO, AND PATRICK J. ANTONELLI KEY POINTS Computed tomography is critical…
PROLIFERATIVE HEMANGIOMAS, VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS, AND VASCULAR COMPRESSION SYNDROMES ANTHONY A. MANCUSO KEY POINTS A clinically useful understanding of hemangiomas and vascular malformations begins with understanding the differences between the two…
BENIGN AND MALIGNANT TUMORS OF FIBROUS ORIGIN AND THE FIBROMATOSES ANTHONY A. MANCUSO KEY POINTS Fibrous-origin processes often appear very infiltrating, more so than malignant neoplasms, but are actually benign….
INFECTIOUS AND NONINFECTIOUS INFLAMMATORY DISEASE: CHRONIC INFECTIONS INCLUDING FUNGAL ANTHONY A. MANCUSO KEY POINTS Chronic infections usually have a different morphology of imaging studies than acute pyogenic infection, although overlap…
MANDIBULAR TRAUMA: BLUNT-FORCE FRACTURES AND PENETRATING INJURIES ANTHONY A. MANCUSO, JAMES C. PETTIGREW, MADHU K. NAIR, AND JAMES D. RUSKIN KEY POINTS The imaging findings in mandibular trauma are critical…
BENIGN AND MALIGNANT MENINGEAL TUMORS ANTHONY A. MANCUSO KEY POINTS Extracranial meningiomas are rare and in reality usually turn out to be transcranial extensions of intracranial tumors. When a transcranial…
NATURALLY OCCURRING PARAMAGNETIC SUBSTANCES INCLUDING BLOOD PRODUCTS. ANTHONY A. MANCUSO KEY POINTS How to understand the effects of naturally occurring paramagnetic substances on computed tomography and magnetic resonance images. The…
INFECTIOUS AND NONINFECTIOUS INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS: VASCULITIS INCLUDING ARTERITIS, THROMBOPHLEBITIS, AND VASCULAR THROMBOSIS ANTHONY A. MANCUSO KEY POINTS Venous and arterial disease is an important conduit of inflammatory disease spread in…
DEVELOPMENTAL LESIONS: EPIDERMOID, DERMOID, TERATOMAS, HAMARTOMAS, AND ABERRANT TISSUE ANTHONY A. MANCUSO KEY POINTS Developmental abnormalities should be referred to by their proper names. A correct understanding of these conditions…