With the growing number of MR installations, clinicians and radiologist are being confronted more and more with visual information they do not feel as confident with as with the more 'mono-form' infor mation of conventional radiographs, CT and US. The freedom of parameter choice ofthe MR operator allows the same object to be depicted in various ways and the contrast in the images to be changed and inverted at will. For those not experienced in interpreting MR images, this may cause confusion and uncertainty about their diagnostic content. This will sometimes lead to an unnecessary retreat to other diagnostic modalities. The purpose of this book is to help close the gap between MR operators and readers and clinicians. A variety of cases is presented, together with the MRI considerations. In nearly all these cases, confirma tion of diagnosis was obtained by histological examination. Quite deliberately, this book only includes the occasional CT scan or angiography for comparison, to avoid the temptation of falling back on other modalities and of escaping from the often more difficult to interpret, but in the end more rewarding MR images. All the MR images in this book were made with a 'first-generation', unsophisticated Teslacon I, 0.6 T, superconducting magnet system. Hopefully, they will reflect the quality of the machine. Some people will agree with me that it is sad that investments in expensive health care systems are subject to the whims of those who are mainly interested in satisfying their stockholders.
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All the sections are of a high standard, but those concerning tumors, spinal lesions, vascular lesions and epilepsy deserve special mention. The book is very well written, the quality of the illustrations is very good, and the reader will find a huge amount of information on the MRI appearance of CNS diseases.
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Child's Nervous System
, 6/5, 1990
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
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340
340 s/w Abbildungen
600 p. 340 illus.
Dateigröße
ISBN-13
978-94-009-3351-4 (9789400933514)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-009-3351-4
Schweitzer Klassifikation
1. Introduction.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Basic principles of MRI.- 2. Technical Considerations.- 2.1 Pulse sequences.- 2.2. Artefacts.- 2.3. Functional studies.- 2.4. Flow related phenomenons.- 2.5. Surface coils.- 3. Special Procedures.- 3.1.
Sellar and parasellar regions.- 3.2. Mesencephalon, region pineal gland.- 3.3. Pontocerebellar cisterns.- 4. Intracranial Tumours.- 4.1. Diagnostic problems.- 4.2. Cerebral tumours.- 4.3. Extracerebral tumours.- 4.4. High SI lesions in pons and mesencephalon.- 4.5. Metastases.- 4.6. Gliomatosis cerebri.- 5. Spinal Lesions.- 5.1. Spondylarthrotic and disc related disease.- 5.2. Orthopedic problems.- 5.3. Spinal tumours.- 6. Contrast Agents.- 107. Virus infection.- 108. Metastatic disease.- 109. Metastatic disease.- 110. Low grade astrocytoma.- 111. Glioma, grade 3; postoperative, postradiotherapy.- 112. Glioblastoma multiforme, distinction between tumour/oedema.- 113. Cystic or solid lesion.- 114. Meningeoma of the foramen magnum.- 115. Tentorium meningeoma.- 116. Intramedullary tumour.- 117. Recurrent spinal meningeoma.- 118. Intramedullary tumour.- 119. Intra- or extramedullary lesion with arachnoiditis.- 120. Intramedullary lesion in Wegener's disease.- 121. Same patient as in 120, follow-up after treatment.- 7. Infections.- 7.1. General.- 7.2. AIDS encephalopathy.- 8. Vascular Lesions.- 8.1. Cerebral infarctions.- 8.2. Cryptic angiomas.- 8.3. AVM's, aneurysms, intracerebral haemorrhage.- 8.4. Deep white matter infarctions, Binswanger's disease, Multi infarct dementia.- 9. White Matter Disorders-Myelination.- 9.1. De- and dysmyelination.- 9.2. Multiple sclerosis.- 9.3. Toxic encephalopathy.- 9.4. Myelination.- 10. Congenital Anomalies.- 195. Total vermis aplasia, hydrocephalus, abnormal optic chiasm.- 196. Schizencephaly.-197. Encephaloclastic schizencephaly.- 198. Lissencephaly, pachygyria.- 199. Multiple congenital malformations; periventricular leukomalacia.- 200. Holoprosencephaly.- 201. Hemimegencephaly.- 202. Hemimegencephaly.- 203. Bourneville-Pringle's disease, tuberous sclerosis.- 204. Unclassifiable. Congenital hydrocephalus?.- 205. Agenesis of corpus callosum. Cerebellar infarction.- 206. Arachnoid cyst.- 207. Periventricular leukomalacia.- 208. Periventricular leukomalacia.- 209. Post encephalitic remains.- 210. Chiari II malformation.- 211. Congenital muscle dystrophy and leukodystrophy (Fukuyama).- 212. Corpus callosum agenesis. Plexus papilloma.- 213. Lipoma of the corpus callosum.- 11. Lesions of the Head and Neck.- 214. Adenocystic tumour nasopharynx.- 215. Follow-up after cytostatic treatment of adenocystic tumour of the nasopharynx.- 216. Adenocarcinoma of nasopharynx.- 217. Tumour of the palatum.- 218. Tumour of the palatum.- 219. Parotid gland disease.- 220. Tumour os temporale; metastasis in skull.- 221. Cyst in the neck region.- 222. Pleomorph adenoma of submandibular gland.- 223. Rhabdomyosarcoma of the neck.- 224. Palatum tumour.- 225. Clivus chordoma? Grawitz tumour metastasis?.- 226. Chordoma.- 227. Chordoma.- 12. Laryngeal Cancer.- 228. Hypopharyngeal tumour.- 229. Small supraglottic tumour with lymphatic spread.- 230. Small glottic tumour.- 13. Orbital and Ocular Lesions.- 231. Retinoblastoma.- 232. Melanotic melanoma.- 233. Amelanotic melanoma.- 234. Optic glioma.- 235. Carcinoma of the lacrimal gland.- 236, 237. Reduced size of eye: persistent hyperplastic vitreous; post-radiotherapy.- 238, 239, 240,241. Various lesions.- 242. Aplasia of orbital roof.- 243. Coloboma of the eye.- 244. Outer ridge meningeoma.- 14. Temporomandibular Joint.- 245. Anteriorluxation with reduction.- 246. Rotational dislocation.- 15. Trauma.- 247. Chronic subdural haematoma.- 248. Bilateral subdural haematomas; tentorial herniation.- 249. Haemorrhagic contusions.- 16. Epilepsy.- 250. Fronto-opercular gliosis with calcification and retraction.- 251. Low-grade astrocytoma; no progression in two years.- 252. Peri-insular gliosis.- 253. Refractory partial epilepsy; gliosis of the temporal lobe.- 254. Partial complex epilepsy; temporal lobe atrophy.- 17. Postoperative Conditions.- 255. Haemochromatosis and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus.- 256. Postoperative control paranasal squamous cell carcinoma.- 257. Oligodendroglioma postoperative.- 258. Non Hodgkin lymphoma in pre-existent intraventricular cyst.- 259. Intramedullary haemangioblastoma with syrinx.- 260. Spinal syrinx after compression.- 18. Gradient Echoes.- 261. Gradient echoes.- 262. Gradient echoes.- Acknowledgements.- References.
