Fellows’ Journal Club Editor’s Comment CT images were reconstructed by using weighted filtered back-projection and iterative metal artifact reduction. Two neuroradiologists evaluated images in the region of spinal hardware and assigned a score for the visualization of critical anatomic structures
Fellows’ Journal Club Editor’s Comment Carotid web was defined on CTA as a thin intraluminal filling defect along the posterior wall of the carotid bulb just beyond the carotid bifurcation on oblique sagittal section CTA that was seen as a
Fellows’ Journal Club Editor’s Comment Clinical follow-up of 144 of 154 patients who survived the admission period (January 1995–August 2006) was for a mean of 9.8 years. Aneurysm size of 15 mm was the most important independent predictor for retreatment.
Please check out the accompanying podcast of this blog post (discussion of this article begins at 19:18) Level of evidence: 3A This study tries to expand on recent observational studies that showed increased T1 shortening in the posterior fossa
Please check out the accompanying podcast of this blog post (discussion of this article begins at 15:07) Level of evidence: 3A In this study the investigators wanted to compare the changes in signal intensity ratios in the dentate nucleus
Fellows’ Journal Club Editor’s Comments The authors evaluated the effect of jugular compression on brain tissue stiffness and CSF flow by evaluating 9 volunteers, with and without jugular compression, with MR elastography and phase-contrast CSF flow imaging. The shear moduli
Fellows’ Journal Club Editor’s Comments This is a retrospective study that included 54 patients with a cystic pituitary adenoma and 28 patients with a Rathke cleft cyst who underwent MR imaging followed by surgery. Regression analysis showed that cystic pituitary
Fellows’ Journal Club Editor’s Comments This is a retrospective review of the medical records of 706 consecutive patients who were treated with irradiation for primary brain tumors at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions between June 1995–January 2010. The authors found
Fellows’ Journal Club Editor’s Comment A group of 111 consecutive patients with untreated oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma and available preoperative imaging and subsequent lymph node dissection was studied. Twenty nine subjects had radiographically determined extracapsular spread. Imaging sensitivity and
Fellows’ Journal Club Editor’s Comment The authors performed a crossover, intraindividual comparison of 0.1-mmol/kg gadobenate with 0.1-mmol/kg gadoterate (Arm 1) and 0.05-mmol/kg gadobenate with 0.1-mmol/kg gadoterate (Arm 2). In Arm 1, a significant superiority of 0.1-mmol/kg gadobenate was demonstrated by
