NEURORADIOLOGY ESSENTIALS
Radiologic Clinics
Ronald L. Wolf, MD, PhD W.B.
Department of Neuroradiology
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Saunders Company
1st edition January 2006
ISBN: 141603384X

The goal of this issue was to provide a practical approach to each problem, incorporating relevant clinical and radiologic advances. Trauma is unfortunately all too common, and this is the topic of the first two articles. Over the last several years, cross-sectional imaging requests from our trauma services have been increasing quite steeply, at least partially due to the proliferation of multidetector CT scanners and the wealth of information available with this technique. In the first article, traumatic injury to the spinal column is discussed. This is followed by an article discussing the imaging of neurovascular traumatic injury. Screening for such injuries has become much more aggressive, and yet, widely accepted guidelines for screening are not fully established. In the next two articles, the focus is on the most common mechanisms of nontraumatic brain injury in the adult and pediatric populations: ischemic injury in adults and hypoxic injury with or without hypoperfusion for children. These types of injury can certainly occur in both populations, but the etiologies and resulting patterns and mechanisms of injury are quite different. The next two articles thus focus on adult and pediatric populations separately. In the outpatient setting, two of the most common imaging requests are for cervical node evaluation and multiple sclerosis. These are the topics for the next two articles. Finally, for the benefit of the reader, two additional articles relevant
to essential neuroradiology and previously published in Neuroimaging Clinics of North America have been included: one providing an overview of epilepsy and a discussion of MR imaging interpretation in this setting, and the other reviewing imaging of orbital pathology


Contents:
Neuroradiology Essentials
Imaging of Spinal Trauma
Imaging of Traumatic Neurovascular Injury
Modern Emergent Stroke Imaging: Pearls, Protocols, and Pitfalls
Acute Injury to the Immature Brain with Hypoxia with or Without Hypoperfusion
Update on Multiple Sclerosis
Imaging of Cervical Lymph Nodes in Head and Neck Cancer: The Basics
MR Imaging of Epilepsy: Strategies for Successful Interpretation
Anatomy and Pathology of the Eye: Role of MR Imaging and CT