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
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors conducted a retrospective review of 58 patients with 62 MR imaging studies performed within 72 hours following endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms. Patient demographics, aneurysm location, and vascular territory distribution of cortical and sulcal hyperintensity
Editor’s Choice This is a retrospective analysis of 59 patients who received only gadobutrol and 60 patients who received only linear gadolinium-based contrast agents. Linear gadolinium-based contrast agents included gadoversetamide, gadobenatedimeglumine, and gadodiamide. T1 signal intensity in the globus pallidus,
Fellows’ Journal Club A total of 53 patients underwent MR imaging consisting of 5 basic fast precontrast sequences plus standard and accelerated versions of the same postcontrast T1WI sequences. Two neuroradiologists assessed the image quality and the final diagnosis for
T. Kanda, H. Oba, K. Toyoda, S. Furui Department of Radiology Teikyo University School of Medicine Itabashi-ku, Japan We wish to comment on the December 2015 article of Ramalho et al1 entitled “Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agent Accumulation and Toxicity: An Update”
Editor’s Choice Editor’s Comment The authors report on a cohort of 135 patients with clinically confirmed PRES who received gadolinium-based contrast and evaluate symptoms, etiology, and clinical follow-up. The most common pattern seen was leptomeningeal (17.8*) or leptomeningeal plus cortical
Letter Re: The Benefits of High Relaxivity for Brain Tumor Imaging: Results of a Multicenter Intraindividual Crossover Comparison of Gadobenate Dimeglumine with Gadoterate Meglumine (The BENEFIT Study) E. Lancelot, B. Piednoir, P. Desché Guerbet Roissy CdG Cedex, France We have
Please check out the accompanying podcast of this blog post (discussion of this article begins at 19:18) Level of evidence: 3A This study tries to expand on recent observational studies that showed increased T1 shortening in the posterior fossa
Please check out the accompanying podcast of this blog post (discussion of this article begins at 15:07) Level of evidence: 3A In this study the investigators wanted to compare the changes in signal intensity ratios in the dentate nucleus
Fellows’ Journal Club Editor’s Comments This is a retrospective review of the medical records of 706 consecutive patients who were treated with irradiation for primary brain tumors at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions between June 1995–January 2010. The authors found
