BookElke Hattingen, Stefan Weidauer, Matthias Setzer, Johannes C. Klein, Frank Vrionis, editors.
Summary: Spinal cord imaging has significantly benefited from new MR imaging methods such as cardiac-gated diffusion-weighted imaging, diffusion tensor imaging with fiber tracking, and time-resolved MR angiography. Recent decades have also witnessed fundamental progress in understanding of the pathophysiology of vascular, metabolic, and inflammatory spinal cord diseases. Furthermore, neurosurgical procedures and endovascular treatments of spinal cord diseases have been improved and perfected to avoid severe neurological sequelae. This textbook provides an interdisciplinary overview of the new imaging modalities, identifies clues for MR imaging diagnosis and differential diagnosis, and describes the anatomical background required to understand spinal cord diseases. Important neurological symptoms are highlighted, and modern treatment options for different diseases are fully explained and discussed. High-quality illustrations, including numerous images, are provided for all important spinal cord diseases, documenting relevant anatomical details, special MR imaging methods, differential diagnoses, and possible treatment procedures.
Contents:
Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 Anatomy of the spine and spinal cord
Anatomy of spinal canal
Structures of the spinal canal
Part 3 Imaging methods
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Methods.- Advanced Imaging methods
CSF Dynamics
MR myelography
Myelography and post-myelographic CT.- Part 4 Malformations of the spine
Spinal malformations
Part 5 Diseases of extramedullary origin
Degenerative diseases
Extramedullary space-occupying pathologies
Spinal trauma
Meningeal disorders
Part 6 Diseases of the spinal cord
Pathophysiological regards
Inflammation of the spinal cord
Metabolic-toxic diseases
Gray matter diseases of the spinal cord
Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors
Vascular diseases of the spine and spinal cord
Spinal cord infarction.