Full Description
This book provides the essential information needed for formulating findings in CT of the head and spine. The book is conceived as a highly practical guide for use in routine CT diagnosis, as well as in critical on-call emergency situations. The features: - Condenses information to the core questions of the diagnostic problem at hand without oversimplifying: What does the clinician want to know? What must be included in the findings, and what differential diagnosis must be excluded? - Clear and didactic organization of information in pathogenesis, clinical findings, and CT morphology - Convenient summaries, offset by a second color, provide information to be used during the CT examination that assure that nothing will be overlooked - Detailed descriptions of normal anatomy with normal values help to differentiate pathologic from normal findings.
Contents
1 Fundamentals - Clinical Aspects - Technical Aspects 2 Craniocerebral Trauma - Closed and Open Head Injuries Closed Head Injuries Open Head Injuries - Skull Fractures Cerebral Contusion Epidural Hematoma Traumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Subdural Hematoma, Acute and Chronic Subdural Hygroma Gunshot Injuries Other Open Brain Injuries Traumatic Vascular Injuries Late Sequelae of Head Trauma 3 Cerebrovascular Diseases -Brain Infarction -Hypertensive Intracerebral Hemorrhage -Arteriovenous Malformations -Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage -Thrombosis 4 Inflammatory Diseases -Brain Abscess, Bacterial -Tuberculosis -Sarcoidosis -Herpes Simplex Encephalitis -Toxoplasmosis -Cryptococcosis -Neurocysticercosis -Nocardiosis -L-isteriosis -Lyme Disease -Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy -Progressive Diffuse Leukoencephalopathy 5 Intracranial Tumors -Neuroepithelial Tumors Gliomas Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma -Ependymal Tumors Ependymoma Subependymoma -Choroid Plexus Tumors Plexus Papilloma, Choroid Plexus Carcinoma -Neuroepithelial Tumors of Unknown Origin Cerebral Gliomatosis -Neuronal and Mixed Neuronal/Glial Tumors Gangliocytoma Ganglioglioma Central Neurocytoma Esthesioneuroblastoma -Pineal Parenchymal Tumors Pineocytoma, Pineoblastoma, Pineal Cyst -Embryonal Tumors Medulloepithelioma Neuroblastoma Ependymoblastoma Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor/Medulloblastoma -Cranial Nerve Tumors Schwannoma (Neurinoma) Neurofibroma -Meningeal Tumors Meningioma Lipoma Fibrous Histiocytoma Hemangiopericytoma Rhabdomyosarcoma Hemangioblastoma -Lymphomas Lymphoma Plasmacytoma -Germ Cell Tumors Germinoma Teratoma -Cysts and Tumorlike Lesions Rathke Cleft Cyst Epidermoid Dermoid Colloid Cyst -Tumors of the Sellar Region Pituitary Adenoma Craniopharyngioma -Local Extension of Regional Tumors Paraganglioma (Glomus Tumor) Chordoma Chondroma, Chondrosarcoma Carcinoma -Metastases 6 Degenerative and Demyelinating Brain Diseases -Degenerative Diseases Alzheimer Disease Pick Disease Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease Parkinson Disease Multisystem Atrophy Huntington Disease and Wilson Disease -Other Radiologic Findings in Dementia Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Multiinfarct Dementia Diseases of the White Matter Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (Multiple Sclerosis) Central Pontine Myelinolysis 7 Congenital Brain Diseases -Phacomatoses Neurofibromatosis Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Neurofibromatosis Type 2 Hippel-Lindau Disease Sturge-Weber Disease Tuberous Sclerosis -Dandy-Walker Malformation -Arachnoid Cysts -Dysplasia of Corpus Callosum -Chiari Malformation 8 Postoperative Findings and Follow-Up -Ventriculoperitoneal and Ventriculoatrial Shunt -Follow-Up after Tumor Resection 9 Facial Skeleton and Skull Base F-undamentals Clinical Aspects Common Indications -Malformations and Functional Disturbances Paranasal Sinus Inflammations Choanal Atresia Tornwaldt Cyst Otosclerosis -Tumors and Mass Lesions Odontogenic Tumors Ameloblastoma Odontoma Cementoma -Cystic Lesions of the Maxilla and Mandible -Mucocele/Pyocele -Papilloma -Fibrous Dysplasia -Paget Disease -Skull Base Meningioma -Esthesioneuroblastoma -Dermoid/Epidermoid -Aneurysmal Bone Cyst -Giant Cell Tumor -Osteochondroma -Ossifying Fibroma -Cholesterol Granuloma -Cholesteatoma -Glomus Tumor (Paraganglioma) -Tumors of the Pharynx, Nasal Cavity, and Paranasal Sinuses Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Lymphoepithelial and Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, Adenocarcinoma, Juvenile Angiofibroma Schwannoma -Traumatic Lesions Midfacial and Skull Base Fractures Computed Tomography of the Spine -Anatomy of the Spine 10 Fundamentals -Clinical Aspects Common Indications for Spinal Computed Tomography Disk Herniation Fracture/Trauma Mass Lesions -Evaluation and Interpretation of Findings -Technique Single-Slice CT Scanning Spiral CT Scanning Examination Protocol Contrast Medium Interpretation 11 Anatomy -Skeleton -Intervertebral Disks -Blood Vessels Arteries Veins -Ligaments -Spinal Cord and Spinal Nerve Roots -Spinal Meninges -Epidural Space 12 Functional and Structural Abnormalities -Congenital Functional and Structural Abnormalities Spinal Arteriovenous Malformation Congenital Spinal Stenosis Spondylosis, Spondylolysis, Spondylolisthesis Syringomyelia, Hydromyelia Klippel-Feil Syndrome Spinal Dysraphias Spina Bifida Myelomeningocele Tethered Cord Syndrome Diastematomyelia (Myeloschisis) Lipomyeloschisis (Dural Lipoma, -Lipomyelomeningocele, Fibrolipoma of Filum Terminale) Spinal Meningeal Cysts -Acquired Functional and Structural Abnormalities Traumatic Lesions of the Spine Fractures Traumatic Disk Herniation Hemorrhages -Degenerative Diseases of the Spine Degenerative Disk Diseases (Disk Protrusion, Disk Herniation, Sequestered Disk) Synovial Cyst/Ganglion of Facet Joints Spinal Stenosis Osteoporosis 13 Tumors and Other Mass Lesions -Extradural Masses Metastases Lymphoma -Osteogenic Extradural Masses Chordoma Eosinophilic Granuloma Giant Cell Tumor/Osteoclastoma Osteoid Osteoma/Osteoblastoma Aneurysmal Bone Cyst Vertebral Hemangioma Osteosarcoma Fibrous Dysplasia Plasmacytoma (Multiple Myeloma, Kahler Disease) Chondrosarcoma -Intradural Extramedullary Masses Meningioma Schwannoma (Neurinoma, -Neurilemoma)/Neurofibroma Paraganglioma Medulloblastoma Epidermoid, Dermoid, Teratoma -Intramedullary Masses Ependymoma Astrocytoma Pilocytic Astrocytoma -Hemangioblastoma (Angioblastoma, Hippel-Lindau Tumor) Hemangiopericytoma 14 Inflammatory Diseases Infections Discitis Spondylodiscitis Spondylitis/Osteomyelitis of a Vertebral Body Epidural Abscess Spinal Arachnoiditis/Arachnopathy -Rheumatoid Arthritis -Paget Disease (Osteitis Deformans) -Multiple Sclerosis (Disseminated Encephalomyelitis) -Subject Index
