Radiation diagnostics diseases of the brain and spinal cord in the children

1. DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY
PRESENTATION BY SHIEKH AABID
MUSHTAQ.

2. Radiation diagnostics diseases of the brain and
spinal cord in the children.

3. Radiodiagnostics plays an important role in
diagnosis of different kinds of pathology
related to brain and spinal cord in childrens as
well as adults so that the treatment and
prognosis can be better.
Early diagnosis is important in childrens so that
any pathology can be treated related to brain.

4. Neuroimaging methods in children are broadly
classified into three main groups taking into
the consideration the childs body ,tissue
architecture.
1.Neurosonography
2.Computed tomography
3.Magnetic resonance imaging

5. Sonography is one of the safest non invasive
technique use to evaluate different pathologies
Neurosonography in childrens is used for the
diagnosis of acoustic window or a large
fontanelle and also for immature sulcation
For other pathologies the NSG could not provide
the sufficient information

8. CT scan is a non invasive technique commonly
used to evaluate different number of
pathologies in brain of a child.it is best used to
diagnose any kinds of aneuryms,intracranial
calcifications in a child
It is important to use sedation during this
procedure in infants.

11. MRI is considered to be one of the distinguishable
radiodiagnostic methods which helps in
differentiating the different anatomical
structures and related pathologies in brain. It
also provides three dimensional images of
brain.
Molecular magnetci resonance spectroscopy helps
in dx of molecular buildup of tumor

14.  A number of magnetic resosnance varients
with good diagnostic capabilty are also used in
pediatric neuroradiodiagnosis and they
include:
Magnetic resonance perfusion MRI
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy:it checks
different biochemical changes of brain which
are then measured on a graphy known as
spectra eg in case of many tumors like glioma
etc

16. Angiography can be also done to evaluate the
vascular malformormations in children.
This is usually a contrast based technique to
detect the normal and abnormal vascular
patterns in brain of a child.

17. PET scan(positron emission technique) and
SPECT(single photon emission computed
tomography) are not commonly used in the
children for neurodiagnosis.

18. There is no such guidlines for the
neuroradiodiagnosis of children which needs
to be conisdered during procedure.

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