Fellows’ Journal Club The authors evaluated multiple parameters of reduced-FOV DTI to optimize image quality. Fifteen healthy individuals underwent cervical spinal cord 3T MRI, including an anatomic 3D Multi-Echo Recombined Gradient Echo, high-resolution full-FOV DTI with a NEX of 3
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors performed a retrospective blinded analysis of cervical cord MR imaging examinations of 50 patients with MS. In each patient, 2 neuroradiologists measured the number of focal lesions and overall lesion conspicuity in the STIR/proton density–weighted
An HS, Sing K, eds. Synopsis of Spine Surgery. 3rd ed. Thieme; 2016; 384 pp; 313 ill; $89.99 Synopsis of Spine Surgery by Drs. An and Singh is a short, 384-page softcover that highlights key concepts in spine surgery. Material is covered in
Fellows’ Journal Club In this retrospective case-control study, the authors evaluated lumbar spine MR imagings during a 30-month period that were requested for the evaluation of discitis-osteomyelitis. Fifty age-matched control patients were compared with 51 biopsy-proved or clinically diagnosed patients
PRESS RELEASE The American Society of Spine Radiology Presents 2016 Gold Medal to Wade H. M. Wong, D.O., FACR, FAOCR During 2016 Annual Symposium The American Society of Spine Radiology (ASSR) presented the Society’s 2016 Gold Medal to Wade H. M. Wong,
Fellows’ Journal Club Editor’s Comment This cohort study assesses outcomes in patients who underwent CT-guided aspiration and injection of sacral Tarlov cysts at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 2003–2013. A total of 289 cysts were treated in 213 consecutive patients, with
Baaj AA, Mummaneni PV, Uribe JS, Vaccaro AR, Greenberg MS, eds. Handbook of Spine Surgery. 2nd ed. Thieme; 2016; 558 pp; $99.99 The second edition of Handbook of Spine Surgery is edited by the same 5 orthopedic surgeons—who are from 4
Editor’s Choice Editor’s Comment This is a retrospective study of imaging-guided spine cryoablation that was performed on 31 vertebral metastases in 14 patients. The lesions were refractory to conventional chemoradiation therapy or analgesics and were ablated to achieve pain palliation
Vialle LR, ed. Bellabarba C, Kandziora F, guest eds. Thoracolumbar Spine Trauma. AOSpine Masters Series. Vol. 6. Thieme; 2015; 190 pp; 207 ill; $115.81 This book on spine trauma is a publication from AOSpine, which is a specialty group under the
Editor’s Choice Editor’s Comment CTA images of the arterial and late arterial phases were used to obtain warped images of the late arterial phase by nonrigid registration that was adjusted to the arterial phase images. R-CTA images were then obtained
