Fellows’ Journal Club Retrospective review of high-resolution MRIs was performed in patients without prior microvascular decompression. 3D-CISS imaging without and with contrast for 81 patients with trigeminal neuralgia and 15 controls was intermixed and independently reviewed in a blinded fashion.
Editor’s Choice Thirty-eight patients with clinical indications of infectious, degenerative, and neoplastic disease underwent an MR imaging of the spine. The SyntAc sequence, with an acquisition time of 5 minutes 40 seconds, was added to the usual imaging protocol consisting
Mukherji SK, Nunez DB. Emergent Neuroimaging: A Patient Focused Approach. Theclinics.com; 2018; 318-536 pp; $386.90. The August 2018 issue of the Neuroimaging Clinics, edited by Dr. Diego Nunez deals with very practical issues in neuroimaging, specifically Emergent Neuroimaging: A Patient
Rangel-Castilla L, Nakaji P, Siddiqui AH, et al. Decision Making in Neurovascular Disease. Thieme; 2018; 528 pp; 310 ill; $249.99. Decision Making in Neurovascular Disease is a 71-chapter single-volume reference with information, illustrations, and treatment algorithms on neurovascular pathologies that
Fellows’ Journal Club Twenty children (30 imaging sessions, 60 MR scans) with Moyamoya disease underwent dual breath-hold hypercapnic challenge blood oxygen level–dependent MR imaging of cerebrovascular reactivity studies in the same MR imaging session. Within-day, within-subject repeatability of cerebrovascular reactivity
Editor’s Choice The authors automated the identification of enlarged perivascular spaces in brain MR images using a custom quantitative program designed with Matlab. They quantified the densities of enlarged perivascular spaces for patients with mild cognitive impairment (n=14) and age-matched
Lawton MT. Seven Bypasses: Tenets and Techniques for Revascularization. Thieme; 2018; 698 pp; 1,519 ill; $279.99. It was a real pleasure reviewing Seven Bypasses: Tenets and Techniques for Revascularization by Michael T. Lawton, MD. This is the third installation in
Kermany, D. S., Goldbaum, M., Cai, W., Valentim, C. C. S., Liang, H., Baxter, S. L., … Zhang, K. (2018). Identifying Medical Diagnoses and Treatable Diseases by Image-Based Deep Learning. Cell, 172(5), 1122–1124.e9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.010 Ting, D. S. W.,
Davis KW, Blankenbaker DG. ExpertDDX: Musculoskeletal, 2nd Edition. Elsevier; 2018;968 pp;3,100 ill; $299.99. Expert DDX: Musculoskeletal, 2nd Edition is the second book in the ExpertDDX series. The series addresses a challenge inherent to reference books of differential diagnoses. The authors, Kirkland W.
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors performed a retrospective review of 48 patients with cerebral metastases from June 2016 to October 2017. Brain MRIs included gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted IR-FSPGR-BRAVO and CUBE, with subsequent generation of nonoverlapping CUBE MIP and overlapping CUBE MIP.
