Neuroradiology: Key Differential Diagnoses and Clinical Questions, 2nd Edition

Part 1 Brain and Coverings
1 Computed Tomography Hyperdense Lesions
2 T1 Hyperintense Lesions
3 Multiple Susceptibility Artifact Lesions
4 Lobar Hemorrhage
5 Multifocal White Matter Lesions
6 Multiple Small Diffuse-Weighted Imaging Hyperintensities
7 Cortical Restricted Diffusion
8 Ring-Enhancing Lesions
9 Punctate and Curvilinear Enhancing Foci
10 Leptomeningeal Enhancement
11 Dural Enhancement
12 Lesions Containing Fat
13 Dural-Based Extraaxial Lesions
14 Bilateral Central Gray Matter Abnormality
15 Temporal Lobe Lesions
16 Temporal Lobe Cystic Lesions
17 Multicystic Lesions
18 Cerebellopontine Angle Cisterns
19 Lateral Ventricular Lesions
20 Third Ventricular Lesions
21 Fourth Ventricular Lesions
22 Suprasellar Cystic Lesions
23 Pineal Region
24 Cranial Nerve Lesions
25 Lytic Skull Lesions
26 Skull Fracture Versus Sutures
27 Clivus Lesions
28 Hyperdense Cerebellum
29 Low-Lying Cerebellar Tonsils
30 T2 Hyperintense Pontine Lesions
31 Epidermoid Versus Arachnoid Cyst
32 Cyst With a Mural Nodule
33 Ecchordosis Physaliphora Versus Chordoma
Part 2 Spine
34 Atlantooccipital and Atlantoaxial Separation
35 Basilar Invagination and Platybasia
36 Focal Cord Deformities
37 Spinal Cord Metabolic/Demyelinating Processes
38 Enhancing Intramedullary Spinal Cord Lesions
39 Enhancing Intramedullary Conus Lesions
40 Hemorrhagic Intramedullary Lesion
41 Solitary Enhancing Intradural, Extramedullary Lesions
42 Multiple Enhancing Intradural, Extramedullary Lesions
43 Cystic Intradural Extramedullary Lesions
44 Nerve Root Enlargement
45 Extramedullary Abnormal Vessels
46 Epidural Rim-Enhancing Lesion
47 Vertebral Anomalies
48 Single Aggressive Vertebral Body Lesion
49 Posterior Element Lesions
50 Multiple Lytic Lesions of the Spine
51 Sacral Masses
52 Disk Infection Versus Inflammatory/Degenerative Changes
53 Vertebral Compression Fractures
Part 3 Head and Neck
54 Periauricular Cystic Lesions
55 Cystic Lateral Neck Masses
56 Infrahyoid Neck Cystic Lesions
57 Parapharyngeal Space Masses
58 Carotid Space Masses
59 Floor of Mouth Lesions
60 Thyroglossal Duct Abnormalities
61 Primary Hyperparathyroidism
62 Masses Involving the Anterior Cranial Fossa
63 Petrous Apex Lesions
64 Lesions of the External Auditory Canal
65 Cochlear Promontory Lesions
66 Incomplete Partition and Other Cochlear Anomalies
67 Lucent Otic Capsule Lesions
68 Lesions of the Facial Nerve
69 Labyrinthine Enhancement
70 Lucent Jaw Lesions
71 Temporomandibular Joint Mineralized Lesions
72 Jugular Foramen Lesions
73 Optic Nerve Mass
74 Cavernous Sinus Masses
75 Dilated Superior Ophthalmic Vein/Asymmetric Cavernous Sinus Enhancement
76 Adult Globe Lesions
77 Orbital Masses
78 Lacrimal Gland Lesions
79 Extraocular Muscle Enlargement
80 Nasal Cavity Masses
81 Solitary Parotid Masses
82 Bilateral Parotid Lesions
83 Retropharyngeal Space Abnormalities
84 Cranial Nerve Denervation Patterns Part 1: III–VI
85 Cranial Nerve Denervation Patterns Part 2: VII–XII
Part 4 Pediatric Neuroradiology
86 Intraventricular Posterior Fossa Tumors
87 Pediatric Cerebellar Tumors
88 Pediatric Extraaxial Posterior Fossa Tumors
89 Midline Posterior Fossa Extraaxial Cystic Lesions
90 Pediatric Supratentorial Intraaxial Malignancies
91 Occipital Cephalocele
92 Congenital Brainstem Abnormalities
93 Congenital Cerebellar Abnormalities
94 Holoprosencephaly
95 Corpus Callosum Abnormalities
96 Symmetric Diffusion Abnormality in an Infant
97 Abnormal Ventricular Morphology
98 Periventricular Nodularity
99 Congenital Fluid-Filled Cranial Vault
100 Asymmetric Cerebral Hemispheres
101 Cortical Malformations
102 Hippocampal and Perihippocampal Lesions
103 Leukodystrophies
104 Congenital Infections
105 Congenital Arterial Anastomosis
106 Spinal Dysraphism
107 Complex Spinal Dysraphism
108 Pediatric T2 Hyperintense Spinal Cord Lesion
109 Odontoid: Acute Versus Chronic Fragmentation
110 Pediatric Nasofrontal Mass
111 Pediatric Globe Lesions
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Index

Juan E. Small, MD, MSc, Section Chief, Neuroradiology, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts, Pamela W. Schaefer, MD, Associate Director of Neuroradiology, Clinical Director of MRI, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, Asha Sarma and Paul Bunch