Pedicle Abnormality Bryson Borg, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Congenitally Short Pedicles Stress Reaction Trauma Thinning/Remodeling from Intraspinal or Transforaminal Mass Schwannoma Neurofibroma Perineural Root Sleeve Cyst Arachnoid Cyst Dural Dysplasia…
CVJ Soft Tissue Abnormality Jeffrey S. Ross, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Rheumatoid Arthritis Retro-Odontoid Pseudotumor Osteomyelitis, C1-C2 Extramedullary Tumor Metastases Lymphoma Plasmacytoma Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Schwannoma Paraganglioma Chordoma…
Back Pain, Adult Bryson Borg, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Intervertebral Disc Bulge Intervertebral Disc Herniation Facet Arthropathy Intervertebral Disc Anular Tear Stenosis, Acquired Spinal Spondylolysis Spinal Muscle Injury Instability Benign…
Vertebral Body, T1 Hyperintense Signal, Focal Kevin R. Moore, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Normal Variant Hemangioma Degenerative Endplate Changes Focal Fatty Marrow Gadolinium Enhancement Less Common Paget Disease Metastasis, Melanoma…
Vertebral Body, T1 Hyperintense Signal, Diffuse Kevin R. Moore, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Post-Irradiation Vertebral Marrow Normal Variant Heterogeneous Fatty Marrow Osteoporosis Less Common Hemangiomas (Multiple) Paget Disease ESSENTIAL INFORMATION…
Vertebral Body, T1 Hypointense Signal, Diffuse Kevin R. Moore, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Hyperplastic Vertebral Marrow Normal Variant (Technical) Neoplasm Metastases, Blastic Osseous Leukemia Lymphoma Multiple Myeloma Less Common HIV…
Lower Extremity Pain Bryson Borg, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Intervertebral Disc Bulge Intervertebral Disc Herniation Stenosis, Acquired Spinal, Lumbar Stenosis, Foraminal, Lumbar Stenosis, Congenital Spinal Spondylolisthesis Spondylolysis Metastases Less Common…
Sacral Deformity Bryson Borg, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Sacral Foraminal Mass Dural Dysplasia Neurofibroma Insufficiency Fracture, Sacral Sacral Traumatic Fracture Metastatic Disease Ependymoma, Myxopapillary, Spinal Cord Less Common Dorsal Dysraphism…
Vertebral Body Scalloping/Widened Canal Bryson Borg, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Normal Variant Vertebral Segmentation Failure Dural Dysplasia Intraspinal Mass Ependymoma Schwannoma Neurofibroma Meningioma Arachnoid Cyst Lipoma Astrocytoma Dermoid and Epidermoid…
Meckel Cave Lesion Anne G. Osborn, MD, FACR DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Schwannoma, Trigeminal, Intracranial Meningioma Metastasis, Skull Base Less Common Metastasis, CSF/Meningeal Metastasis, Perineural CNV3 Meningitis Neurosarcoid Neurofibroma Pseudotumor, Intracranial…
