Skull Base Foraminal or Fissural Variants Christine M. Glastonbury, MBBS DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Jugular Foramen Asymmetry Glossopharyngeal Canal Less Common Petromastoid Canal Asymmetric Sphenoidal Emissary Vein (of Vesalius) Persistent Craniopharyngeal…
Intramedullary Spinal Cord Lesion Bernadette L. Koch, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Syringomyelia ADEM Idiopathic Acute Transverse Myelitis Acute Transverse Myelopathy Less Common Contusion-Hematoma Multiple Sclerosis Astrocytoma Cellular Ependymoma Abscess Rare…
Pelvis Mass Eva Ilse Rubio, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Ovarian Lesion, Nonneoplastic Simple Cyst Parovarian Cyst Hemorrhagic Cyst Ovarian Lesion, Neoplastic Germ Cell Tumors Stromal Cell Tumors Epithelial Cell Tumors…
Pineal Mass Bernadette L. Koch, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Pineal Cyst Less Common Germinoma Teratoma Rare but Important Pineoblastoma Retinoblastoma Pineocytoma ESSENTIAL INFORMATION Helpful Clues for Common Diagnoses Pineal Cyst…
Lumbar Soft Tissue Mass Kevin R. Moore, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Lipomyelomeningocele Myelomeningocele Spinal Lipoma Traumatic Spinal Muscle Injury Scoliosis Less Common Plexiform Neurofibroma Ewing Sarcoma Lymphoma Venous Vascular Malformation…
Sacrococcygeal Mass Kevin R. Moore, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Sacrococcygeal Teratoma Presacral Abscess Less Common Neuroblastic Tumor Plexiform Neurofibroma Lymphoma Chondrosarcoma Ewing Sarcoma Rare but Important Rhabdomyosarcoma Osteosarcoma Dermoid and…
Ring-Enhancing Lesions Bernadette L. Koch, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Abscess Pilocytic Astrocytoma Neurocysticercosis Less Common Demyelinating Disease ADEM Multiple Sclerosis Ganglioglioma Rare but Important Aneurysm (Thrombosed) Other Infections Tuberculosis Fungal…
Lateral Ventricular Mass Bernadette L. Koch, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Choroid Plexus Cyst Intraventricular Hemorrhage (IVH) Less Common Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma Ependymal Cyst Choroid Plexus Papilloma Rare but Important…
Inner Ear Lesion in a Child H. Ric Harnsberger, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Fracture, T-Bone Large Endolymphatic Sac Anomaly (IP-2) Labyrinthine Ossificans Subarcuate Artery Pseudolesion Less Common Semicircular Canal Dysplasia,…
Trans-Spatial Mass Bernadette L. Koch, MD DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS Common Abscess Lymphatic Malformation Venous Malformation Infantile Hemangioma Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Rhabdomyosarcoma Less Common Lipoma Thymic Cyst 4th Branchial Anomaly Rare but…
