Editor’s Choice The aims of this study were to: 1) to design a new method of postprocessing time-intensity curves, which renders normalized curves, and 2) to test its feasibility and performance on the diagnosis of primary central nervous system lymphoma.
Srinivasan A, ed. Mukherji SK, consulting ed. Neuroimaging Clinics of North America: State of the Art Evaluation of the Head and Neck. Elsevier; 2020;30(3):261–392; $397.00 Coming nearly in a coordinated fashion with the just-ended virtual American Society of Head and
1. Dea N, Versteeg AL, Sahgal A, et al. Metastatic spine disease: should patients with short life expectancy be denied surgical care? An international retrospective cohort study. Neurosurgery 2020;87(2):303–11 Recent advances in medical oncology, especially with targeted molecular treatment, have
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors retrospectively examined the MRI of children diagnosed with neurofibromatosis type 1 using the National Institutes of Health Consensus Criteria (1987), with imaging follow-up of at least 4 years. They recorded the number, size, and surface
Editor’s Choice This study cohort comprised 617 children (median age, 92 months; 56% males) from 5 pediatric institutions with posterior fossa tumors: diffuse midline glioma of the pons, medulloblastoma, pilocytic astrocytoma, and ependymoma. There were 199 controls. Tumor histology served
Fellows’ Journal Club This retrospective international multicenter study comprised 20 patients with melanoma who were being treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors and clinically diagnosed with immune checkpoint inhibitor–induced hypophysitis. Three radiologists evaluated the following MR imaging findings: enlargement of the
Editor’s Choice Eighteen patients with Moyamoya disease (16–55 years of age) and 18 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were evaluated with myelin-sensitive MR imaging based on magnetization transfer saturation imaging and 2-shell diffusion MR imaging. The myelin volume fraction, which
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors analyzed consecutive MR imaging–selected patients with acute basilar artery occlusions endovascularly treated within the first 24 hours after symptom onset. Successful and complete reperfusion was defined as modified TICI scores 2b–3 and 3, respectively. Outcome
Editor’s Choice Mangafodipir is a manganese chelate that was clinically approved for MR imaging of liver lesions. The authors present a case series of 6 adults with multiple sclerosis who were scanned at baseline with gadolinium, then injected with mangafodipir,
1. Rubiera M, Garcia-Tornel A, Olivé-Gadea M, et al. Computed tomography perfusion after thrombectomy. Stroke 2020;51:1736–42. Available from: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.029212 Despite substantial recanalization in large vessel occlusion, about half of the patients treated with endovascular treatment will show a poor functional
