Maximize the diagnostic capabilities of CT imaging!

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.

Computed Tomography of the Head
Anatomy of the Head
1 Fundamentals
Clinical Aspects
Technical Aspects
2 Craniocerebral Trauma
Closed and 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
Thromboses
4 Inflammatory Diseases
Brain Abscess, Bacterial
Tuberculosis
Sarcoidosis
Herpes Simplex Encephalitis
Toxoplasmosis
Cryptococcosis
Neurocysticercosis
Nocardiosis
Listeriosis
Lyme Disease
Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
Progressive Diffuse Leukoencephalopathy
5 Intracranial Tumors
Neuroepithelial Tumors
Ependymal Tumors
Choroid Plexus Tumors
Neuroepithelial Tumors of Unknown Origin
Neuronal and Mixed Neuronal/Glial Tumors
Pineal Parenchymal Tumors
Embryonal Tumors
Cranial Nerve Tumors
Meningeal Tumors
Lymphomas
Germ-Cell Tumors
Cysts and Tumorlike Lesions
Tumors of the Sellar Region
Local Extension of Regional Tumors
Metastases
6 Degenerative and Demyelinating Diseases
Degenerative Diseases
Other Radiologic Findings in Dementia
Diseases of the White Matter
7 Congenital Brain Diseases
Phacomatoses
Dandy-Walker Malformation
Arachnoid Cysts
Corpus Callosum Dysplasia
Chiari Malformation
8 Postoperative Findings and Follow-Up
Ventriculoperitoneal and Ventriculoatrial Shunt
Follow-Up after Tumor Resection
9 Facial Skeleton and Skull Base
Fundamentals
Inflammatory Sinus Disease
Tumors and Mass Lesions
Traumatic Lesions
Midfacial and Skull Base Fractures
Computed Tomography of the Spine
Anatomy of the Spine
10 Fundamentals
Clinical Aspects
Evaluation and Interpretation of Findings
Technical Aspects
11 Anatomy
Bone
Intervertebral Disks
Blood Vessels
Ligaments
Spinal Cord and Spinal Nerve Roots
Spinal Meninges
Epidural Space
12 Functional and Structural Abnormalities
Congenital Functional and Structural Abnormalities of the Spine
Acquired Functional and Structural Abnormalities of the Spine
13 Intraspinal Lesions
Extradural Masses
Intradural Extramedullary Masses
Intramedullary Masses
14 Inflammatory Diseases
Infections
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Paget Disease (Osteitis Deformans)
Multiple Sclerosis