Young Professionals in Neuroradiology: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions.

The Young Professionals Committee of the American Society of Neuroradiology identifies and serves the interests of young professionals in neuroradiology, defined as those still in training or within 5 years of its completion. Being a young professional is an exciting, dynamic, and demanding stage of one's professional career. As the landscape of neuroradiology practice changes, new opportunities and challenges occur for those in the early stage of their career.

Enhancing Radiology Education With Social Media.

Social media plays a significant role in many of our daily lives, both personally and professionally. This article will focus on the ways in which social media can be used to enhance radiology education today. These educational opportunities include, but are not limited to, RadDiscord, sharing interesting cases, X chats, virtual lectures, and grand rounds.

Practical Tips and a Template for Developing Your Curriculum Vitae.

The Alliance of Leaders in Academic Affairs in Radiology (ALAAR) advocates for a Universal Curriculum Vitae for all medical institutions and to that end, we have developed a template that can be downloaded on the AUR website (ALAAR CV template) that includes all of the elements required by many academic institutions. Members of ALAAR represent multiple academic institutions and have spent many hours reviewing and providing input on radiologists' curricula vitae. The purpose of this review is to help academic radiologists accurately maintain and optimize their CVs with minimal effort and to clarify common questions that arise at many different institutions in the process of constructing a CV.

Imaging of Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury (in the Era of Cooling).

Hypoxic-ischemic injury (HII) is a major worldwide contributor of term neonatal mortality and long-term morbidity. At present, therapeutic hypothermia is the only therapy that has demonstrated efficacy in reducing severe disability or death in infants with moderate to severe encephalopathy. MRI and MRS performed during the first week of life are adequate to assess brain injury and offer prognosis.

Using a Nationwide Virtual Radiology Student Interest Group to Expand Medical Students' General Awareness, Drive Greater Interest, and Achieve Uniform National Messaging in the Field of Radiology.

Rationale And Objectives: Many medical schools offer minimal exposure to radiology, leading to a decreased understanding of the field and negative perceptions among medical students. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a radiology intensive series piloted by a novel virtual radiology interest group. Specifically, we were interested in how radiologists and medical educators can expand students' general awareness, drive greater interest in the field, and achieve more uniform national messaging across all trainees.

Rate of Leptomeningeal Enhancement in Pediatric Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibody-Associated Encephalomyelitis.

Introduction: Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibodies (MOG-abs) are associated with demyelinating diseases. Leptomeningeal enhancement occurs in 6% of adult MOG-abs patients but rates in pediatric MOG-abs patients are unknown.

Methods: Retrospective review of pediatric MOG-abs patients was performed.

Aseptic meningitis and leptomeningeal enhancement associated with anti-MOG antibodies: A review.

Background: Aseptic meningitis can be caused by autoimmune diseases, such as lupus and sarcoidosis. Aseptic meningitis with leptomeningeal enhancement can be the initial presentation of a neuroinflammatory syndrome associated with antibodies to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG-abs). MOG-abs is a serum biomarker for MOG-associated disorder (MOG-AD), an acquired demyelinating syndrome that includes features of neuromyelitis optica, multiple sclerosis, optic neuritis, and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis.

Update of the AMSER National Medical Student Curriculum.

Since the first steps of creating the Alliance of Medical Student Educators in Radiology (AMSER) curriculum 20 years ago, dramatic advances in medical imaging, patient care, and medical education have occurred necessitating an update of this valuable resource. The 2020 update of the AMSER curriculum aims to address as many of these changes while providing a succinct resource that will hopefully remain useful for years to come. The updated AMSER curriculum document is freely available for download via the AMSER website at https://www.

A Presentation of Pediatric Sjögren's Syndrome with Abducens Nerve Palsy.

Sjögren's syndrome is a systemic autoimmune disease that classically presents with xerophthalmia and xerostomia. However, neurological manifestations occur in 10 to 60% of patients with Sjögren's syndrome and can often precede classic sicca symptoms in Sjögren's syndrome in some cases up to several years. Rarely, cranial neuropathy can be the initial presentation.

Very late recurrence of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia masquerading as a pituitary tumor.

Involvement of the pituitary gland by leukemic infiltration is exceedingly rare. Here, we describe a very late recurrence of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia masquerading as a pituitary tumor and review the literature for previously reported cases. Our female patient presented 13 years after completion of therapy for B-ALL with headache, amenorrhea, galactorrhea and a pituitary mass.

Congenital Toxoplasmosis Presenting as Eosinophilic Encephalomyelitis With Spinal Cord Hemorrhage.

A 4-week-old male neonate with a history of intermittent hypothermia in the newborn nursery presented with an acute onset of bilateral lower extremity paralysis and areflexia. Extensive workup demonstrated eosinophilic encephalomyelitis and multifocal hemorrhages of the brain and spinal cord. Funduscopic examination revealed bilateral chorioretinitis with macular scarring.

Neuroimaging of Patients in the Intensive Care Unit: Pearls and Pitfalls.

A brief introduction is provided of the different imaging modalities encountered in the intensive care unit (ICU). The spectrum of intracranial pathology as well as potential postsurgical complications is reviewed, with a focus on pearls and pitfalls. A brief overview also is provided of imaging of the spine in an ICU patient.

Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma Size Measurement in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: Noncontrast vs Contrast-Enhanced 3-Dimensional T1-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

Purpose: Tuberous sclerosis complex is a multisystem genetic disorder characterized by multiorgan hamartomas, seizures, and developmental delay. Current consensus recommendations for tuberous sclerosis complex include brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) without and with contrast every 1 to 3 years until age 25 years for subependymal giant cell astrocytoma screening, and more often in patients with known subependymal giant cell astrocytoma. Recent reports in the literature regarding gadolinium deposition have prompted us to investigate the added value of intravenous contrast in this setting.

Neuroimaging of Adults with Headache: Appropriateness, Utilization, and an Economical Overview.

One of the most common reasons that a patient seeks out a health care provider for a neuroscience-related issue is headache. Not all patients can, or probably should, be imaged with headache. We must use an approach that attends to scientific evidence, accepted guidelines, and available resources.

Anatomical features of the cervical spinal canal in Chiari I deformity with presyrinx: A case-control study.

Purpose The relationship between syringomyelia and presyrinx, characterized by edema in the spinal cord, has not been firmly established. Patients with syringomyelia have abnormal spinal canal tapering that alters cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics, but taper ratios in presyrinx have never been reported. We tested the hypothesis that presyrinx patients have abnormal spinal canal tapering.

Usefulness of quantitative peritumoural perfusion and proton spectroscopic magnetic resonance imaging evaluation in differentiating brain gliomas from solitary brain metastases.

Objectives: The purpose of our study was to evaluate whether peritumoural perfusion weighted and proton spectroscopic magnetic resonance imaging can be used in differentiating between primary gliomas and solitary metastases.

Methods: Ten low-grade gliomas, eight high-grade gliomas and 10 metastases were prospectively evaluated with magnetic resonance imaging, dynamic susceptibility contrast enhanced perfusion imaging and single-voxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy before surgical resection or stereotactic biopsy. Maximal relative cerebral blood volume values were calculated drawing three regions of interest of 2 cm(2) in the non-enhancing peritumoural areas.

Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy (Rosai-Dorfman disease) of the true vocal cord.

Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) is a rare disorder involving massive benign proliferation of histiocytes in the lymph nodes. The etiology is unknown and the disease usually presents as painless lymphadenopathy accompanied with fever, night sweats, and weight loss. Due to its rarity, the disease is still difficult to diagnose when associated with extranodal involvement.