FIG. 6.1 Cerebral swelling in meningitis. Two axial images (A, B) from a noncontrast head CT demonstrate nearly completely effaced sulci. Even in young patients with healthy cerebral volumes, usually…
Grading of severity of CT findings has traditionally relied on the Trauma Coma Data Bank (TCDB) classification, also known as the Marshall classification (11) (Table 3.2). However, this classification system,…
Table 8.2 VENTRAL INDUCTION AND DESIGNATION OF THE BRAIN VESICLES The cerebral cortex develops in four stages including patterning, cell proliferation, neuronal migration, and postmigratory development with a potential insult…
FIG. 5.1 Small early acute stroke. 82-year-old female with 3 hours’ onset of expressive aphasia. A: NCCT with regular brain parenchyma windowing and (B) with narrow windowing (C) axial DWI…
FIG. 11.1 Supporting ligamentous structures of craniovertebral junction posterior view.The posterior arch of C1 has been removed. (From Weinstein JS, Nemecek AN. Trauma-related complications—atlantooccipital dislocation. In: Benzel EC, ed. The…
VDO should be thought of as a continuum of disease, with both entities occurring at different times in pathogenesis of infection based on the age of the patient. In children…
Cord signal changes are often encountered in the clinical setting of myelopathy, a neurologic deficit related to the spinal cord pathology (1). The most common causes of myelopathy include disc…
FIG. 15.1 A: AP oblique right vertebral arteriogram in the late arterial phase demonstrates the anterior spinal artery (ASA) (small arrow) descending from the proximal basilar artery. Note the ASA…
FIG. 12.1 Lateral radiograph of lumbar spine in extension (A), neutral, (B), and flexion (C) positions. Note the anterolisthesis of L4 over L5. The addition of radiographs with the spine…
FIG. 20.1 Normal axial CT anatomy. A: Axial image through the mesotympanum shows the following: 1, internal auditory canal; 2, cochlear aperture; 3, vestibule; 4, vestibular aqueduct; 5, posterior semicircular…
