Items tagged “neuroradiology”
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Occipital condyle fracture
Occipital condylar fractures are uncommon injuries usually resulting from high-energy blunt trauma. They are considered a specific type of basilar skull fracture, and importantly can be seen along with craniocervical dissociation.
Treatment of isolated injury is generally conservative, unless t...
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Basilar invagination
Basilar invagination, also called basilar impression, is a congenital or acquired craniocervical junction abnormality where the tip of the odontoid process projects above the foramen magnum.
Terminology
The following terms are often used interchangeably because they describe upwards migration...
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Arachnoid cyst - spinal
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16 Jun 2010
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Lipomyelomeningocele
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30 Jun 2010
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Subacute combined degeneration of the cord
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06 Jul 2010
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Spinal muscular atrophy
Spinal muscular atrophy is a type of congenital neuromuscular disease affecting anterior horn cells of the brainstem and spinal cord.
Epidemiology
This disorder affects 1 in 6000-10000 infants 1.
Clinical presentation
Spinal muscular atrophy typically affects infants and young children, pres...
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Caudal regression syndrome with lipoma
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31 Jul 2010
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Demyelinating plaque - dorsal column
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08 Aug 2010
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Chiari 1 malformation, syrinx and scoliosis
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08 Aug 2010
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Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type II with scoliosis
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08 Aug 2010
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Conus medullaris
The conus medullaris is the tapered inferior-most part of the spinal cord to which is attached the filum terminale.
Gross anatomy
The conus medullaris is conical in shape, tapering from the distal spinal cord to a narrow point from which a delicate strand of fibrous tissue called the filum ter...
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Baastrup disease
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10 Sep 2010
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Von Hippel-Lindau disease with spinal hemangioblastoma
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17 Sep 2010
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Curriculum
The Radiopaedia.org curricula aim to set out what constitutes core knowledge, as a helpful aid to study. These are set out by system.
We operationally define core knowledge as important topics that all general radiologists and senior registrars should have a broad working knowledge of. These c...
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Caudal regression syndrome
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20 Oct 2010
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Caudal regression syndrome
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20 Oct 2010
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Filar cyst
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20 Oct 2010
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Dorsal dermal sinus
Dorsal dermal sinus is an epithelium-lined tract from the skin to the spinal cord, cauda equina, or arachnoid as in a form of spinal dysraphism.
Clinical presentation
A dorsal dermal sinus manifests as a small dimple or pinpoint ostium, which is often associated with an area of hyperpigmented...
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Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
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29 Dec 2010
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Chiari I malformation
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02 Jan 2011
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