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History: 10 year old female with headaches and facial deformity. What is your differential diagnosis for this 10 year old girl with headaches?
History: Infant with a congenital anomaly. This is the appearance of a Luckenschadel (or lacunar) skull. Luckenschadel skull is a congenital defect in the skull that results from abnormal membranous ossification. It is associated with Chiari II malformations, which includes the following features: 1. Cerebellar tonsil herniation through foramen magnum due to a small posterior … Continue reading
History: Infant with congenital abnormality. What is your diagnosis? What is the term for this finding? What are its associations? Comment, like, pin, and share below!
History: 28 year old patient with end stage renal disease and hypertension presents with a seizure. This young patient had multiple areas of spontaneous, or primary intracranial hemorrhage with an absence of trauma. As indicated in the figure, intracranial (or intracerebral) hemorrhage can occur in different spaces in the head itself, including the subarachnoid space (green … Continue reading
History: 70 year old male with acute right sided hemiplegia. Many different entities can cause increased signal on diffusion weighted imaging. The differential diagnosis includes acute ischemic stroke, abscess, empyema, epidermoid cyst, lymphoma, intracerebral hematoma, encephalomyelitis, diffuse axonal injury, meningioma, and multiple sclerosis. An excellent article reviewing these entities is found here. The patient from … Continue reading
History: 80 year old male with headache. This is the appearance of periventricular white matter hypoattenuation on CT. In this patient it is due to normal aging effects on the brain. The appearance of periventricular white matter hypoattenuation on CT is nonspecific and the differential diagnosis includes normal aging brain, arteriolosclerosis, multiple sclerosis, acute disseminated … Continue reading
History: 60 year old female with headaches and dizziness. This is a case of a meningioma with all of the classic MRI findings, except for location. Meningiomas arise from the arachnoid cap cells of the meninges. They are supratentorial in 90% of the time, which is why this case isn’t entirely a classical. Meningiomas are benign … Continue reading
History: 55 year old male with new onset seizures. This case is a nice example of a ring enhancing mass in the brain. The typical mnemonic used for a solitary ring enhancing mass in the brain is MAGIC-DR which stands for Metastases, Abscess, Glioblastoma Multiforme, Infarct, Contusion, Demyelinating disease (tumefactive multiple sclerosis), and Radiation Necrosis … Continue reading
History: 60 year old male with severe headache. This is a case of subarachnoid hemorrhage. Typically sudden onset non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage is the result of a ruptured cerebral aneurysm, however, in this case the distribution of subarachnoid hemorrhage is not typical for a ruptured aneurysm, and may be related to other causes such as supratherapeutic … Continue reading
History: Radiology resident being scanned for a physics lesson has an incidental finding. This is my brain MRI! The finding is called a fetal origin of the posterior cerebral artery, and it occurs when the embryonic form of the posterior cerebral artery fails to regress. It is a normal variant that occurs on either side … Continue reading
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