Full Description
This book provides clear guidance as to which neuroradiological findings in ill or injured patients should be immediately communicated by radiologists and trainees to the emergency room and referring physicians in order to facilitate key decisions and eliminate preventable errors. It offers a practical and illustrative approach that identifies what to look for and how to report it and describes the required follow-up and the most common differential diagnoses of the main critical findings in neuroradiology. The book is distinctive in being written from a "critical findings perspective", which makes its content more practical and memorable than that of a standard Emergency Neuroradiology textbook. It also illustrates the value of developing algorithmic approaches to report and communicate critical findings based on lists. While the book will appeal to a broad and variable audience, it is especially addressed to radiology training programs and will be a "must read" for residents and fellows in training.
Contents
PART 1 Brain.- 1 Cerebral Edema.- 2 Cerebral Herniation.- 3 Intracranial Hypotension Syndrome.- 4 Ischemic Stroke in Adults.- 5 Ischemic Stroke in Children.- 6 Hypoxic-ischemic Injury.- 7 Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage.- 8 Remote Cerebellar Hemorrhage.- 9 Brain Vascular Malformations.- 10 Venous Thrombosis.- 11 Dural Arteriovenous Fistula.- 12 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- 13 Incorrectly Clipped/Coiled Aneurysm.- 14 Brain Death.- 15 Meningitis Empyema and Brain Abscess in Adults.- 16 Meningitis Empyema and Brain Abscess in Children.- 17 Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis - ADEM.- 18 Metabolic Brain Disorders in Children.- 19 Basal Ganglia and Thalamic Lesions.- 20 Acute Temporal Lobe Abnormalities.- 21 Traumatic Brain Injury.- 22 Epidural Hematoma.- 23 Subdural Hematoma.- 24 Pneumocephalus.- 25 Child Abuse.- 26 Pediatric Skull Fractures.- 27 Hydrocephalus.- 28 Retained Foreign Body.- PART 2 Head and Neck.- 29 Pre-septal Orbital Cellulitis.- 30 Post-septal Orbital Cellulitis.- 31 Invasive Fungal Sinusitis.- 32 Temporal Bone Infections.- 33 Petrous Apicitis.- 34 External Malignant Otitis.- 35 Ludwig's Angina.- 36 Retropharyngeal Abscess.- 37 Lemierre Syndrome.- 38 Epiglottitis.- 39 Orbital Trauma.- 40 Temporal Bone Fractures.- 41 Penetrating Neck Trauma.- 42 Laryngeal Fracture.- 43 Extracranial Artery Dissections.- PART 3 SPINE.- 44 Non-traumatic Vertebral Collapse.- 45 Spinal Cord Compression.- 46 Spinal Hemorrhage in Adults: Extra medullary, Extradural, and Intramedullary.- 47 Spinal Hemorrhage in Children: Extra medullary, Extradural, and Intramedullary.- 48 Spinal Cord Infarction.- 49 Spinal Cord Mass in Adults.- 50 Spinal Cord Mass in Children.- 51 Spondylodiscitis.- 52 Spinal Fractures in Adults.- 53 Spinal Ligamentous Injuries in Adults.- 54 Pediatric Vertebral Fractures.- 55 Pediatric Spinal Ligamentous Injury.- 56 Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries.- 57 Sciwora.- 58 Spinal Dural Arteriovenous Fistula.- 59 Misplaced Hardware.
