Key Questions - Cranial & Spinal

List five other causes of spontaneous intraparenchymal hemorrhage in adults.
What is the radiographic appearance of a subdural hematoma?
Which vessels supply the following brain territories?
List nine other types of lesions associated with ring enhancement.
What is the radiographic appearance of an epidural hematoma?
List the three anatomic compartments into which the orbit is partitioned by the rectus muscles.
List four common causes of cerebral venous thrombosis.
What is central to identifying a case of trauma resulting from child abuse?
It is useful to divide the neck into two parts, cephalad and caudal. At what structure are these parts separated?
Why do many tumors enhance?
What is a disk protrusion?
What is the critical landmark of the suprahyoid neck on CT and MRI?
What percentage of newly discovered brain tumors in adults are metastatic?
Tumors of the spinal canal are divided into three categories according to anatomic location. List them.
What characteristics are useful for determining if a lesion is intra-axial or extra-axial?
Which brain metastases tend to cause intracranial hemorrhage?
What four features indicate a malignant compression fracture versus an osteoporotic compression fracture?
What is the imaging test of choice for a patient suspected of having had a stroke?
List four differential diagnoses of a posterior fossa mass in a child.
What percentage of nasopharyngeal malignancies involve lymph nodes at the time of diagnosis?
If the infarct is accompanied by hemorrhage, how does the blood appear on noncontrast CT?
What can a noncontrast CT demonstrate?
What five conditions constitute the differential diagnosis of a jugular fossa mass?