Items tagged “neuro”
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Pituitary macroadenoma
Published
23 Feb 2015
74% complete
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Investigating head injury (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Investigating head injury is frequently required because head injury is common: in the US there are 1.3 million traumatic brain injuries per year 1. Causes include falls (children and the elderly), motor vehicle accidents (...
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Investigating focal weakness (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Investigating focal weakness makes up a large proportion of the workload for neurologists and neuroradiologists. A wide range of serious CNS disorders can present with focal weakness. Appropriate timely imaging can guide di...
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Investigating severe headache (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Investigating severe headache (cephalgia is the rarely used medical term for headache 5) is a common requirement in both acute and emergency services. It is also common in neurology clinics and GP surgeries. While many of t...
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Investigating seizures (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Seizures are a common medical emergency and presentation to emergency departments 1-3. All new seizures or changes in seizure activity merit assessment with neurologists, and usually require neuroimaging 3,4. They can be di...
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Investigating cauda equina syndrome (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Cauda equina syndrome (CES) is the compression of nerve roots within the cauda equina and a medical emergency that requires prompt diagnosis, investigation and treatment if the prognosis is to be anything other than bleak 1...
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Investigating altered consciousness (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Altered consciousness or confusion is a common reason for admission to hospital, and involvement of radiology 1,2.
Although the most common reason for acute confusion is intoxication which will improve - when altered neuro...
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Small vessel disease
Published
12 Jun 2015
80% complete
CT
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Glioblastoma NOS
Published
14 Jun 2015
98% complete
CT
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Mesial temporal sclerosis
Published
14 Jun 2015
80% complete
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Cerebral metastasis causing confusion
Published
14 Jun 2015
95% complete
CT
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CNS manifestations of NF1 - optic pathway glioma, neurofibroma, dural ectasia
Published
04 Sep 2017
83% complete
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ABC/2
ABC/2, also confusingly written as 1/2ABC in some literature, is a fast and simple method for estimating the volume of intracerebral hemorrhage (or any other ellipsoid lesion for that matter) which does not require volumetric 3D analysis or software.
Intracerebral hemorrhage volume is an import...
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Bladder impairment following spinal cord injury
A commonly used classification scheme used by urologists and rehabilitation specialists, described by Wein, classifies bladder impairment following spinal cord injury according to the level of injury:
suprasacral (infrapontine) bladder - upper motor neuron lesion, releasing the sacral micturiti...
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Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
Published
22 Mar 2020
77% complete
MRI
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Investigating diplopia (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Diplopia, also known as double vision, is a visual symptom of seeing two images of a single object.
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Investigating strabismus (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Strabismus, commonly known as "crossed eyes" or "squint," is a visual disorder characterized by the misalignment of the eyes 1.
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Investigating amblyopia (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Amblyopia, often referred to as a "lazy eye", is a vision development disorder where an eye fails to achieve normal visual acuity, despite the use of prescription spectacles or contact lenses.
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Hemorrhagic stroke (summary)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Hemorrhagic stroke is a clinical diagnosis where an acute neurological deficit follows a bleed into the brain parenchyma.
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This is a summary article; read more in our article on intracerebral hemorrhage.
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