Enlarged Neural Foramen Bryson Borg, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Nerve Sheath Tumor Schwannoma Neurofibroma Perineural Root Sleeve Cysts Dural Dysplasia Lytic Metastasis to Vertebral Body or Pedicle Less Common Osteomyelitis,…
Dysmorphic Vertebral Body Julia Crim, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Single Vertebral Body Post-Traumatic Deformity Schmorl Node Limbus Vertebra Metastases, Lytic Osseous Multiple but not all Vertebral Bodies Abnormal Segmentation Partial…
Sacral Mass, Adult Lubdha M. Shah, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Lytic Osseous Metastases Sacral Stress Fracture Occult Intrasacral Meningocele Chordoma Lymphoma Giant Cell Tumor Multiple Myeloma Paget Disease Less Common…
Vertebral Body Sclerosis, Diffuse Bryson Borg, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Discogenic Sclerosis Metastases, Blastic Osseous Chronic Discitis/Osteomyelitis Healing Fracture Renal Osteodystrophy Paget Disease Sickle Cell Disease Less Common Osteopetrosis Osteosarcoma…
Hyperdense Dural Sinus Anne G. Osborn, MD, FACR DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Physiologic Hyperdensity Thrombosis, Dural Sinus Polycythemia Subdural Hematoma, Acute (Mimic) Less Common Lymphoma, Metastatic, Intracranial Metastases, Skull and Meningeal…
Flattened Vertebral Body, Solitary Julia Crim, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Pathologic Vertebral Fracture Osteoporosis Metastases, Lytic Osseous Metastases, Blastic Osseous Plasmacytoma Multiple Myeloma Steroids Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis Giant Cell Tumor…
Cervical Bony Fusion Julia Crim, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Abnormalities of Segmentation Failure of Vertebral Formation Partial Vertebral Duplication Klippel-Feil Spectrum Vertebral Segmentation Failure Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis DISH Post-Traumatic Deformity…
Congenital Vertebral Anomalies Julia Crim, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Abnormalities of Segmentation Failure of Vertebral Formation Vertebral Segmentation Failure Partial Vertebral Duplication Klippel-Feil Spectrum Craniovertebral Junction Variants VACTERL Association Scoliosis…
C1-C2 Instability Julia Crim, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Trauma Jefferson C1 Fracture Odontoid C2 Fracture Hyperflexion Injury, Cervical Rotary Subluxation, Atlantoaxial Os Odontoideum Pathologic Vertebral Fracture Non-Traumatic Rheumatoid Arthritis, Adult…
Enlarged Deep (Medullary/Ependymal) Veins James D. Eastwood, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Developmental Venous Anomaly Arteriovenous Malformation Less Common Sturge-Weber Syndrome Thrombosis, Deep Cerebral Venous Thrombosis, Dural Sinus Dural A-V Fistula…
