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1. Brain density-grey vs white matter
# Brain density-grey vs white matter
 
# midline shift
2. midline shift
# Subarach space-syl fissure - look for sulci
 
# vent system - look at temp horns
3. Subarach space-syl fissure - look for sulci
# Corner shots - eyes / bones
 
4.vent system - look at temp horns
 
5. Corner shots - eyes / bones
 
trigone
 
Ethmoid/ sphenoid
 
Foramen ovale -cn
 
5 -maxillary div
 
spinosum- middle meningeal
 
foramen rotundum / pterygoid
 
Clinoid- medial is orbital canal
 
-sup/inf orb fissure lateral
 
Look for central sulcus- parietal/ frontal div
 
Hypoglossal canal off magnum
 
Cn 7 up cn 8 coke down ( cochlear)
 
jugular foramen 9, 10,11
 
pars marginalis/ central sulcus- division parietal/frontal
 
Sylvian fissure atrophy = temporal lobe atrophy( alzh)
 
Supracellar cistern- circle willis - meningioma/ pit tumors/ craniopharnygioma/ aneurysm
 
Comm hydro - arachnoid
 
Pineal gland - usually calcified- below third vent,
 
Sphenoid - vert vs ethmoid -horizontal
 
Occipital - sagital sinus enhancement
 
Lens/ epidural- dont cross suture lines- cornonal
 
Ex vacuo dilatation- large vent from atrophy vs aids encephalopathy
 
Subdural empyema- meningitis-- stroke
 
Mesenchyme makes up tentorium
 
Vasogenic edema- tumors/infectious vs cytotoxic edema- stroke
 
Ring enh lesions- toxo vs lymphoma in immunocomp pt
 
If thickened near outside. - abcess vs Irreg - ca
 
Avm- atrophy/ calcification
 
Post fossa-cerebellum / pons/ medulla
 
 
 


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Revision as of 21:23, 10 June 2011

  1. Brain density-grey vs white matter
  2. midline shift
  3. Subarach space-syl fissure - look for sulci
  4. vent system - look at temp horns
  5. Corner shots - eyes / bones