Background And Purpose: To develop and evaluate an automated, AI-based, volumetric brain tumor MRI response assessment algorithm on a large cohort of patients treated at a high-volume brain tumor center.
Materials And Methods: We retrospectively analyzed data from 634 patients treated for glioblastoma at a single brain tumor center over a 5-year period (2017-2021). The mean age was 56 +/-13 years.
Spinal CSF leak care has evolved during the past several years due to pivotal advances in its diagnosis and treatment. To the reader of the (), it has been impossible to miss the exponential increase in groundbreaking research on spinal CSF leaks and spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH). While many clinical specialties have contributed to these successes, the neuroradiologist has been instrumental in driving this transformation due to innovations in noninvasive imaging, novel myelographic techniques, and image-guided therapies.
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October 2024
Background And Purpose: Various imaging techniques have been described to detect CSF-venous fistulas in the setting of spontaneous intracranial hypotension, including decubitus CT myelography. The expected diagnostic yield of decubitus CT myelography for CSF-venous fistula detection is not fully established. The purpose of this study was to assess the yield of decubitus CT myelography among consecutive patients presenting for evaluation of possible spontaneous intracranial hypotension and to examine the impact of brain MR imaging findings of spontaneous intracranial hypotension on the diagnostic yield.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is a treatable cause of orthostatic headaches secondary to pathologic loss of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from the subarachnoid space. SIH has several known pathologic causes including dural tears from disc osteophytes, leaks emanating from nerve root sleeve diverticula, and CSF-venous fistulas (CVFs). Depending on the type of leak, surgical repair or endovascular techniques may be options for definite treatment.
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