The American Journal of Neuroradiology is pleased to announce Matthew D. Alvin, MD, as our eighth Editorial Fellow. Dr. Alvin holds a BS degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and MS, MA, and MD degrees from Case Western
1. Perez-Roman RJ, Shelby Burks S, Debs L, et al. The risk of peripheral nerve tumor biopsy in suspected benign etiologies. Neurosurgery 2020;86:E326–32. doi:10.1093/neuros/nyz549 The authors evaluated the neurological risks of preoperative biopsy in benign PNSTs. Surgical cases were collected
Fellows’ Journal Club This study included 520 consecutive patients with a clinical diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke (49.4% men; mean age, 72 years) who underwent CTA to evaluate large-vessel occlusion of the proximal anterior circulation. CTA scans were retrospectively reviewed
Editor’s Choice The authors retrospectively reviewed a nationwide surveillance to identify risk factors contributing to complications and short-term clinical outcomes in the endovascular treatment of brain arteriovenous malformations. A total of 1042 endovascular procedures (788 patients) performed in 111 institutions
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors reviewed 144 adult patients who underwent presurgical evaluation for temporal lobe epilepsy. The reference standard for hippocampal sclerosis was defined by having hippocampal sclerosis on pathology (n=61) or not having hippocampal sclerosis on pathology (n=83).
Editor’s Choice The authors compared vessel wall enhancement after intra-arterial thrombosuction with that in patients not treated by thrombosuction in a group of 49subjects with ischemic stroke with 7T MR imaging within 3 months after symptom onset. In the intra-arterial
1. Hagiwara Y, Koto M, Bhattacharyya T, et al. Long-term outcomes and toxicities of carbon-ion radiotherapy in malignant tumors of the sphenoid sinus. Head Neck. 2019;(July 2019):50-58. doi:10.1002/hed.25965 Carbon ion offers potentially superior dose distributions which allows to escalate the
Fellows’ Journal Club Multiple sclerosis lesions develop around small veins that are radiologically described as the so-called central vein sign. With 7T MR imaging and magnetic susceptibility-based sequences, the central vein sign has been observed in 80%–100% of MS lesions
Editor’s Choice The authors tested the hypothesis that recently introduced 4D dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging with high spatial and temporal resolution has equivalent accuracy to 4D-CT for preoperative gland localization in primary hyperparathyroidism. Fifty-four patients met the inclusion criteria: 37
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors implement and validate an MRI motion-artifact correction method using a multiscale fully convolutional neural network. Application of the network resulted in notably improved image quality without the loss of morphologic information. For synthetic test data,
