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Critical Imaging Diagnoses: - Radiology

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PML<br />

MR and CT <strong>Imaging</strong> Checklists<br />

• Morphologic Features<br />

– Mass Effect<br />

• Yes, proportional<br />

• Less than expected<br />

• No mass effect<br />

– Abnormal WM Signal<br />

• Vasogenic Edema<br />

• Demyelination<br />

• Infiltrating neoplasm<br />

– Ring Lesion<br />

• Necrotic Neoplasm<br />

• Reactive (e.g. abscess)<br />

• Fluid or Inflammatory<br />

WHO Gr 2 Astrocytoma (“gliomatosis<br />

gliomatosis cerebri”)<br />

(“edema” w/o contrast enhancement)<br />

Gliomatosis Cerebri:<br />

Diffuse Astrocytoma – 2 lobes<br />

NOTE: Although this looks like “vasogenic edema” – there is no enhancement.<br />

Vasogenic edema often spares the internal capsule. This is NOT edema secondary to<br />

a lesion. This is the tumor itself infiltrating through the white-matter.<br />

T2<br />

T1-gad<br />

Infiltrates through White Matter Tracts<br />

Gliomatosis Cerebri<br />

CHO<br />

Cr<br />

NAA ?<br />

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