Fellows’ Journal Club The authors evaluated 244 consecutive patients eligible for reperfusion therapy with MCA stroke and pretreatment MR imaging with both FLAIR and PWI. The FLAIR vascular hyperintensity score was based on ASPECTS, ranging from 0 (no FLAIR vascular
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors reviewed clinical charts and images of patients 18 years of age or younger with ≥4 gadobenatedimeglumine–enhanced MRIs for 6 years. Seventy-six children (60 unconfounded by treatment, 16 with radiochemotherapy) met the selection criteria. T1 signal
Fellows’ Journal Club This was a retrospective study including 62 patients diagnosed with primary head and neck squamous cellcarcinoma who underwent contrast-enhanced CT examinations for staging, followed by chemoradiotherapy. CT texture features of thewhole primary tumor were measured using an
Fellows’ Journal Club The updated eighth edition of the Cancer Staging Manual of the American Joint Committee on Cancer will be implemented in January 2018. There are multiple changes to the head and neck section of the manual, which will be relevant
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors review the relevant cardiac implantable electronic devices encountered in practice today, the background physics/technical factors related to scanning these devices, the multidisciplinary screening protocol used at their institution for scanning patients with implantable cardiac devices,
Fellows’ Journal Club One hundred five consecutive patients with primary oropharyngeal and oral cavity head and neck squamous cell carcinoma underwent MR imaging with anatomic and DWI sequences. The collected tumor voxels from the contoured ROIs provided histograms from which
Fellows’ Journal Club This was a retrospective review of 1340 patients with 1595 unruptured saccular intracranial aneurysms that underwent endovascular coil embolization between February 2010 and December 2014. The clinical outcomes of patients with procedural rupture of saccular intracranial aneurysms
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors assessed regional CBF in patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus compared with healthy controls using the noninvasive quantitative arterial spin-labeling MR imaging technique. Twenty-one consecutive patients with NPH and 21 age- and sex-matched randomly selected
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors sought to determine whether the L5 vertebra could be accurately localized by using nerve morphology on MR imaging. A sample of 108 cases with full spine MR imaging were numbered from the C2 vertebral body
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors evaluated 23 distal anterior circulation occlusions during a 2-year period. Ten M1-segment occlusions and 10 cases without a vessel occlusion were also included. There was significant improvement in the sensitivity of detection of distal anterior
