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Primary vs Secondary TB
- Primary TB - consolidation, LAD, pleural effusion
- Secondary TB - upper lung zone, cavitation
Giant hepatic hemangioma
- > 4cm in diameter
- can be complicated by acute hemorrhage - acute abdominal pain, lesion enlargement, hyperdense foci on CT, hyperintense T1 and hypointense rings/bands on T2
Chiari malformation
- Chiari I malformation
- underdeveloped posterior fossa
- normal sized cerebellum tries to fit in –> inferior tonsillar herniation
- children > 7mm
- adults > 5mm
- CSF outflow obstruction at the level of foramen magnum
- Rx - sx decompression to restore and maintain CSF flow
- Chiari II malformation
- associated with midline abnormality and neural tube defect - myelomeningocele
West Nile Virus
- WNV can cause a poliomyelitis-like syndrome with acute flaccid paralysis of the extremities typically with sensory sparing.
MRI of the spine will often appear normal but in some instances may demonstrate enhancement of the anterior horn or ventral nerve roots. - Enhancing ventral nerve roots on MRI is a relatively nonspecific finding and may be seen in a number of other conditions aside from WNV including, DDx
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- meningitis
- neurosarcoidosis
Where does inferior alveolar nerve run?
Within the mandibular canal.
Exits through the mental foramen anteriorly.
Anatomy of the mandible

DISH
Actually ossification of the
anterior longitudinal ligament
and maybe
posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL)
WITH OR WITHOUT osteophytes
What to do when you are unsure whether something is truely SDH or just brain parenchyma cut-through funny?
Repeat the study!
Hopefully by then the cut will be different and you can tell!!
Ewing sarcoma
- age of onset - most common 11-15y/o, vast majority <15 y/o
- compared to osteosarcoma 10-25 y/o
- most common location - pelvis
- the most common malignancy arising from the ribs in pediatric patients - Ewing sarcoma
What drug gives you tracheobronchial calcification?
Warfarin
MM patients can have what kind of nodules in the lungs?
Amyloid
How do you differentiate pericardial from myocardial calcifications?
- Pericardial calcification - along the RV, AV grooves
- Myocardial calcification - along the LV

In-utero bowel perforation
from meconium
meconium peritonitis


- 3 stages:
- early lytic phase (hot on bone scan),
- intermediate or mixed phase,
- osteoblastic or cold phase (minimal activity or normal bone activity on bone scan)
- Bone scans are more sensitive than radiographs and help define extent of disease, since most patients have more than one bone involved
- Typical appearance of Paget’s disease in long bone –> starts at the end of the bone and advances along shaft of the bone expanding the cortex!!! almost always starts at the epiphysis!!! (“candle flame”, “blade of grass”)
- 1% undergo sarcomatous degeneration - other complications would include pain, insufficiency fractures, compressive neuropathy
- Etiology: Unknown, but possibly connected to parvomyxovirus, environmental factors
Typical MR appearance of AVN

- T2 or PD hyperintense - hyperemia and granulation tissue
- T1 hypointense margin - linear sclerosis

Patellar chondromalacia
aka
Patellar tendon - lateral femoral condyle friction syndrome
aka
Hoffa’s fat pad impingement syndrome
- anterior knee pain, esp climbing stairs
- grading
- I - softening and swelling
- II - fissuring
- III - less than full depth
- IV - full depth, exposing subchondral bone
- associated with patellar maltracking, e.g., patellar alta
- T2 hyper in the Hoffa’s fat pad; fraying of the apical and lateral patellar cartilage
Most common acquired deafness in children
- labyrinthine ossificans
- ossification of membranous labyrinth
- complications of OM or meningitis
- hazy foggy appearance of bones
- loss of signal on MR

Indications for breast MR
- staging for Rx plannig - masectomy vs lumpectomy
- indeterminate lesion on Mammo or US, and when breast bx is cannot be done
- dense breasts (not proven yet)
- axillary node with unknown primary - negative mammogram/US
- restage post-Rx
- high risk screening
Most important sequences for breast MR
Dynamic acquisition
- steady - normal
- plateau - indeterminate
- washout - bad
other features that are worrisome for malignancy
- spiculated borders
- peripheral enhancement
- regional/blotchy enhancement
- ductal enhancement
Which patients are considered high risk for breast cancer?
- risk > 20%
- BRCA-1/2 - starts screening 10 years before diagnosis of the index relative
- childhood radiation - starts screening 8 years after radiation
Spindle cell…
is a buzz word for … ?
Sarcoma
Sarcomatoid tumors
DDx for VERY fast growing tumor in the chest
- sarcoma
- lymphoma
I-131 uptake may be physiologic in
- IUD
- Uterine fibroids
Carney syndrome
- extra-adrenal paragangliomas
- GIST
- pulmonary chondroma/hamartomas

























