“I received more than 50 MRIs, but never got to meet my neuroradiologist. I don’t even know what he/she looks like.” Greg Cantwell, a 10-year survivor of Glioblastoma, shared his story with attendees of the 53rd annual meeting of the
Hollenberg GM, Weinberg EP, Meyers SP. Differential Diagnosis in Musculoskeletal MRI. Thieme; 2015; 676 pp; $199.99 Differential Diagnosis in Musculoskeletal MRI was written with the goal of providing a simple reference book on the various pathologies encountered in a musculoskeletal radiology
Shams S, Martola J, Granberg T, et al. Cerebral Microbleeds: Different Prevalence, Topography, and Risk Factors Depending on Dementia Diagnosis — The Karolinska Imaging Dementia Study. http://www.ajnr.org/content/36/4/661.full MR studies in more than 1500 patients with dementia revealed that 22% had microbleedsthat were
van der Kolk AG, Zwanenburg JJM, Denswil NP, et al. Imaging the Intracranial Atherosclerotic Vessel Wall Using 7T MRI: Initial Comparison with Histopathology. http://www.ajnr.org/content/36/4/694.full In this preliminary study, 7T imaging was capable of identifying not only intracranial wall thickening but different plaque
“TweetUp” is a blend of tweet and meetup. According to the urbandictionary.com, a TweetUp is “an organized or impromptu gathering of people that use Twitter. “ It is simply any event where people who tweet come together to meet in
Click to listen to the accompanying podcast (discussion of this article begins at 15:21) Currently the management of intracranial astrocytic tumors relies heavily on histologic grade. Although histologic grading is the current gold standard for tumor grading, it is a limited
Please check out the accompanying podcast of this blog post (also known as “Annotated Bibliography”): 1. Benarroch EE. The amygdala: Functional organization and involvement in neurologic disorders. Neurology. 2015;84(3):313–324. This detailed review of the functional organization of the amygdala includes
The Department of Neuroradiology of the University Hospital of Zurich is sponsoring its 23rd Zurich Course on Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology on August 31 – September 5, 2015. The diagnostic part of the course will cover selected topics on fundamental
Nowinski WL, Chua BC, Wut Yi SH. 3D Atlas of Neurologic Disorders. Thieme; 2015; $299.99 This Atlas comes on a thumb drive and allows one to easily access key anatomic and associated pathologic disorders on vivid and spectacular rendering of
