Editor’s Choice This is a retrospective review of head and neck biopsies performed from January 2013 through December 2019. Clinical diagnosis and indication, patient demographics, mass location and size, biopsy needle type, technical approach, dose-length product, sedation details, complications, diagnostic
1. Oegema R, Barakat TS, Wilke M, et al. International consensus recommendations on the diagnostic work-up for malformations of cortical development. Nat Rev Neurol 2020;16:618–35. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41582-020-0395-6 The diagnostic pathway for MCDs is complex owing to wide variations in
Fellows’ Journal Club Nineteen patients with spontaneous intracranial hypotension with a proved spinal CSF leak were investigated between July 2014 and 2017. Brain MR imaging-based volumetry at baseline and after surgery was performed with FreeSurfer. In addition, the spontaneous intracranial
Editor’s Choice Images of 231 patients who underwent an operation for suspected glioma recurrence were reviewed. Patients with susceptibility artifacts or without central necrosis were excluded. The final diagnosis was established according to histopathology reports. Two neuroradiologists classified the diffusion
Fellows’ Journal Club This retrospective case-control study compared the olfactory bulb and olfactory tract signal intensity on thin-section T2WI and postcontrast 3D T2 FLAIR images in patients with COVID-19 and neurologic symptoms, and age-matched controls imaged for olfactory dysfunction. Olfactory
Editor’s Choice Consecutive patients who underwent simultaneous head and neck 18F-FDG-PET/MR imaging staging or restaging followed by surgery were retrospectively included in this study. Local tumor invasion and lymph node extension were assessed by 2 rater groups in 45 head and
1. Salem MM, Ravindran K, Enriquez-Marulanda A, et al. Pipeline embolization device versus stent-assisted coiling for intracranial aneurysm treatment: a retrospective propensity score-matched study. Neurosurgery 2020;87:516–22 No studies have been done using propensity score to match small unruptured anterior circulation
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors present 5 cases that illustrate varying imaging presentations of acute encephalopathy in patients with coronavirus disease 2019. MR features include leukoencephalopathy, diffusion restriction that involves the GM and WM, microhemorrhages, and leptomeningitis.
Editor’s Choice The authors retrospectively reviewed tentorial venous anatomy of the head using CTA/CTV performed for routine care or research purposes in 238 patients. Tentorial vein development was related to the ring configuration of the tentorial sinuses. There were 3
Fellows’ Journal Club This was a retrospective study performed at a large academic hospital in the United States. A total of 641 patients presented to the authors’ institution between March 3, 2020 and May 6, 2020, for treatment of coronavirus
