Full Description
The aim of this book is to emphasize firstly that rare and serious conditions can be hidden behind common (mis)leading neurological symptoms. Secondly, it stresses the importance of the collaboration with clinician colleagues - a neuroradiologist needs complete and accurate patient information to make a proper diagnosis or a differential diagnosis that can properly guide further diagnostic processing.
The book, structured as an atlas, is divided into three sections according to the most common leading symptoms encountered in hospital emergency units or in outpatient settings. Each proposed case is accompanied by a short medical history, CT and MRI images, and a text describing its most important radiological features.
27 cases were chosen from the authors' everyday practice: rare and peculiar cases, as well as common cases with a twist. Although both authors are experienced neuroradiologists, several of the cases were surprising and it took considerable time toarrive at the correct diagnosis. A certain level of knowledge and experience, together with information from literature, the Internet or from clinicians, helped them solve most of the cases directly, or after consultation with clinicians and further medical examinations and interventions.
This book is mainly intended for residents, general radiologists and neuroradiologists. However, it will also be of help to less experienced colleagues or trainees who need to solve particular cases, encouraging them to think outside the box to find the answers.
Contents
I.PAIN AND VERTIGO.- Voltage-gated potassium channel (VGKC)-complex antibody limbic encephalitis.- Cranial bone changes in megaloblastic anemia due to anorexia nervosa.- Multinodular and vacuolating neuronal tumor (MVNT).- Intracranial extra-axial teratoma in an adult female patient.- Ruptured dermoid cyst and ischemic stroke (after in-vitro fertilization treatment).- Trigeminal nerve cavernoma.- Aortic pseudoaneurysm eroding thoracic spine.- Spinal extradural arachnoid cyst.- Spinal intramedullary ependymal cysts.- Pilocytic astrocytoma at the L5-S1 level.- CAPNON.- II. EPILEPTIC SEIZURE.- Antiphospholipid syndrome in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus elements.- Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES): holohemispheric watershed pattern.- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) and hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS).- Citrobacter Koseri brain abscess in chronic cocaine addict.- Intaventricular meningioma.- Large cavernoma vs brain tumor.- Supratentorial extraventricular ependymoma vs arteriovenous malformation.- Pachymeningeal involvement in acute myeloid leukemia (AML).- Gliosarcoma.- Is this really a gliobastoma?.- Extradural spinal meningioma.- Chronic venous sinus thrombosis vs brain metastases.- Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) after obinutuzumab treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).- Large cerebral vessel vasculitis in undiagnosed HIV positive patient - meningovascular syphilis.- Cerebral amyloid angiopathy vs primary brain tumor (glioblastoma).
