MRI and surgical findings in deltoid ligament tears.

Objective: The objectives of our study were to determine the accuracy of new MRI criteria in detecting tears of the superficial deltoid ligament of the ankle, the accuracy of established criteria for detecting deep deltoid ligament tears, the most common location of super-ficial deltoid ligament tears, and the frequency of other injuries associated with deltoid tears.

Materials And Methods: A chart review yielded 89 cases over a 3-year interval in which ankle MRI was followed by open or arthroscopic surgery and the surgical report described findings in the deltoid ligament. One case was excluded because the MRI study was technically inadequate.

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome with spinal cord involvement.

Objective: To characterize a cohort of patients with the signs and symptoms of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES), but with clinical and radiologic involvement of the spinal cord.

Methods: We report 2 cases of PRES with spinal cord involvement and identified an additional 6 cases in the Medline database using various search terms related to "spinal PRES," "spinal reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome," and "spinal hypertensive encephalopathy." We analyzed the clinical and imaging characteristics of the 8 cases.

Anterior fontanel size in term and late preterm Hispanic neonates: description of normative values and an alternative measurement method.

We sought to determine anterior fontanel size (AFS) in Hispanic neonates and to compare two methods of measurement. The traditional method (TRAD) was defined as the sum of the longitudinal and transverse dimensions, divided by 2. Diagonal measurements (DIAG) were obtained between the estimated midpoints of the edges of the frontal and parietal bones, and the sum was divided by 2.