Lumbar Bony Trauma Julia Crim, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Fractures Anterior Compression Fracture Burst Fracture Chance Fracture Pathologic Vertebral Fracture Facet-Posterior Fracture Transverse Process Fracture Fracture Mimics, Vertebral Body Schmorl…

Scoliosis Julia Crim, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Scoliosis, Idiopathic Scoliosis, Degenerative Trauma Lateral Compression Fracture, Lumbar Lateral Compression Fracture, Thoracic Lateral Flexion Injury, Cervical Scoliosis, Neuromuscular Cerebral Palsy Muscular Dystrophy…

Kyphoscoliosis, Child Julia Crim, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Traumatic Burst Thoracolumbar Fracture Lateral Compression Fracture, Lumbar Lateral Compression Fracture, Thoracic Lateral Flexion Injury, Cervical Chance Fracture, Thoracic Congenital Scoliosis and…

Platyspondyly, Diffuse Julia Crim, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Multiple Myeloma Osteoporosis Sickle Cell Scheuermann Disease Less Common Metastases, Lytic Osseous Osteogenesis Imperfecta Mucopolysaccharidoses Rare but Important Spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome…

Enlarged Cortical Veins James D. Eastwood, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Normal Developmental Venous Anomaly Arteriovenous Malformation Dural A-V Fistula Less Common Thrombosis, Dural Sinus Thrombosis, Cortical Venous Rare but Important…

Suprasellar Mass, General Anne G. Osborn, MD, FACR DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Pituitary Macroadenoma Meningioma Saccular Aneurysm Craniopharyngioma Pilocytic Astrocytoma Less Common Dilated Third Ventricle Arachnoid Cyst Neurocysticercosis Rathke Cleft Cyst…

Suprasellar Masses, Pediatric Susan I. Blaser, MD, FRCPC DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Pilocytic Astrocytoma Craniopharyngioma Pituitary Hyperplasia (Physiologic) Hydrocephalus Less Common Germinoma Tuber Cinereum Hamartoma Arachnoid Cyst Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis Pituitary…

Hypothalamus Lesion Anne G. Osborn, MD, FACR DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Pilocytic Astrocytoma Diffuse Astrocytoma, Low Grade Less Common Craniopharyngioma Germinoma Neurosarcoid Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis Lipoma Lymphocytic Hypophysitis Metastases Hypothalamic/Pituitary Axis…

Hyperattenuating (“Dense”) Artery Sheri L. Harder, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Physiologic Hyperdensity Cerebral Ischemia-Infarction, Acute Less Common Atherosclerosis, Intracranial Polycythemia Fusiform Aneurysm (ASVD, Non-ASVD) Dissection Pseudoaneurysm Rare but Important Devices…

Vascular Calcification(s) Gregory L. Katzman, MD, MBA DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Physiologic Calcification, Vascular Atherosclerosis, Intracranial Diabetes Saccular Aneurysm Fusiform Aneurysm, ASVD Less Common Chronic Renal Failure Cavernous Malformation Arteriovenous Malformation…