congenital abnormality — Clinical MRI

Tethered cord

July 6, 2013 by Val M. Runge, MD

Back pain in a 58 year old woman [...]

Filed Under: Cases, Clinical Imaging, lumbar, Meet The Experts, spine, Val M. Runge, Xiaoming Li
Tagged With: congenital abnormality, lumbar spine

Left middle cranial fossa arachnoid cyst

July 6, 2013 by Val M. Runge, MD

An incidental finding in a 46 year old man being evaluated for possible recent cerebral infarction (the brain MR was otherwise normal) [...]

Filed Under: brain, Cases, Clinical Imaging, Meet The Experts, Val M. Runge, Xiaoming Li
Tagged With: brain, congenital abnormality, supratentorial, Trauma

Os-acromiale

July 6, 2013 by Nirav A. Patel, MD, MBA

This is a 26-year-old female with no history of trauma, who presents with left shoulder pain. [...]

Filed Under: Cases, Clinical Imaging, Meet The Experts, shoulder, the joints, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: congenital abnormality, shoulder

Buford Complex

July 6, 2013 by Raghuram K. Rao, MD, MPH

This is a 47-year-old male who has a chronic history of shoulder pain. [...]

Filed Under: Cases, Clinical Imaging, Meet The Experts, shoulder, the joints, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: congenital abnormality, shoulder

Posterior ankle impingement syndrome (Os trigonum syndrome)

July 6, 2013 by Dr Harnoor Singh, MD

42 year old woman with right heel pain that started 6-8 months ago. [...]

Filed Under: ankle, Cases, Clinical Imaging, Meet The Experts, the joints, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: ankle, congenital abnormality

Chiari I Malformation

July 6, 2013 by John N. Morelli, MD

This is a 21-year-old male with recent headaches. The headaches are described as intermittent throbbing and result in numbness, tingling, and blurred vision. [...]

Filed Under: brain, Cases, Clinical Imaging, Meet The Experts, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: brain, congenital abnormality, posterior fossa, Posterior Fossa Congenital Malformation

Chiari II Malformation

July 6, 2013 by Dr Harnoor Singh, MD

This is an 11-year-old male being followed for loss of cognitive abilities and facial paralysis. [...]

Filed Under: brain, Cases, Clinical Imaging, Meet The Experts, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: brain, congenital abnormality

Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation

July 6, 2013 by Shashank Prasad, MD

36 year old woman came for routine antenatal screening. An abnormality was detected in the right hemithorax on ultrasound. An MRI was performed for better evaluation. [...]

Filed Under: Cases, chest, Clinical Imaging, Meet The Experts, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: congenital abnormality, fetus, lung

Tethered spinal cord

July 6, 2013 by Fei Ai, MD

This 6-year-old girl was referred to physical therapy for baseline evaluation in the spina bifida clinic and for assessment of neurogenic bowel and bladder dysfunction. At birth, this patient was diagnosed with sacral dysgenesis along with tethered cord and a lipoma within the sacral spinal canal. [...]

Filed Under: Cases, Clinical Imaging, lumbar, Meet The Experts, spine, Val M. Runge, Xiaoming Li
Tagged With: congenital abnormality, lumbar spine

Case Report: Cortical Dysplasia

July 5, 2013 by Michael Kean

This clinical case report details the use of a 32 channel head coil and 3 T for improved visualization of presumed cortical dysplasia in a pediatric patient. [...]

Filed Under: brain, Clinical Imaging, Software & Hardware Updates
Tagged With: 3D, brain, congenital abnormality, SPACE, spectroscopy