Main description:

Written by internationally renowned experts, this volume is a collection of chapters dealing with imaging diagnosis and interventional therapies in neuroradiology and diseases of the spine. The different topics are disease-oriented and encompass all the relevant imaging modalities including X-ray technology, nuclear medicine, ultrasound and magnetic resonance, as well as image-guided interventional techniques. It represents a unique experience for residents in radiology as well as for experienced radiologists wishing to be updated on the current state of the art.

Contents:

From the contentsCerebral Neoplasms.- Evaluation of Cerebral Vessels.- Brain Ischemia.- Hemorragic Vascular Pathology.- Demyelinating Diseases.- Effects of Metabolic Disease of the Brain / Degenerative Brain Disease.- Traumatic Neuroemergency.- Non-traumatic Neuro-emergency.- Imaging the Patient with Seizures.- Imaging of Cerebal Infections.- Diseases of the Sella.- CNS Diseases in Pediatrics.- Orbit and Visual Pathways.- Diseases of the Temporal Bone.- Imaging of the Pharynx and Oral Cavity.- Diseases of the Larynx.- Nose, Paranasal Sinuses and Adj. Spaces.- Degenerative Diseases of the Spine.- Spinal Trauma and Injuries.- Spinal Inflammatory and Demyelinating Dz's.- Mass Lesions of the Brain: A Differential Diagnostic Approach.- Neonatalimaging: Ischemia, hemorrhage andstroke.- Diagnosticimaging of childern's primary brainneoplasms.- Ultrasonographicevaluation of the spinal sac and its content in the newborn andinfant.- Transfontanellargrey scale and Doppler ultrasonography in newborns andinfants.- MIR Essentials for Correlative Imaging of the Brain with PET and SPECT.- Imaging of Dementia.- SPECT and PET in Epilepsy.- Extrapyramidal Syndromes. SPECT and PET.- PET of Brain Tumors.- PET-CT, Staging, restaging if ENT tumors.- SPECT-CT of the Spine.- Role of Imaging in Thyroid Diseases.