Key Features

    Features more than 2,300 annotated images, including MR, CT, proton spectroscopy, and angiographic findings

    Brings you up to speed with recent name changes and reclassification of both neoplastic and nonneoplastic central nervous system (CNS) entities, revised classification of tumor types/subtypes, changes in metabolic disorders and malformations, and entirely new disorders and groups of disorders such as acute flaccid myelitis

    Includes new chapters covering important pediatric spine neoplasms, such as CNS intradural tumor dissemination and myxopapillary ependymoma

    Provides expanded coverage of better-understood genetic white matter diseases such as vanishing white matter disease

    Discusses key topics such as newly discovered genetic mutations correlating with distinct imaging appearances and prognosis, newly characterized infectious entities, recent descriptions of important Chiari I malformation variants, newly described entities based on genetics in addition to histological features, and advances in the diagnosis of abusive head trauma

    Uses bulleted, succinct text for fast and easy comprehension of essential information, including terminology, imaging findings, key facts, differential diagnosis, pathology, clinical issues, diagnostic checklist, and selected references

    Includes an extensive image gallery for each entity, depicting common and variant cases

    Offers a vivid, full-color design that makes the material easy to read

    Displays a "thumbnail" visual differential diagnosis for each entity