Revise Radiology H&N Flashcards
Slow growing, sclerotic lesions attached to outer table of skull
Osteoma
Commonest complication of acute mastoiditis
Sigmoid sinus thrombosis
Hyperattenuating mass conforming to shape of orbit without deforming it
Orbital lymphoma
Bunch of grapes overlying skull
Skull vault haemangioma
Sarcoid orbital disease distribution
Extraconal
Intensely enhancing tumour with calcifications near petrous bone
Endolymphatic sac tumour
Cholesteatoma MRI
Iso T1, Iso T2, no enhancement, restricted diffusion
Pars flaccida cholesteatomas are T2 bright
Expansile, unilocular lesion with sclerotic rim in posterior mandible
Odontogenic keratocyst
Infiltrative, intermediate T1 and T2 lesion in maxilla, CML
Granulocytic sarcoma
Subdural spinal bleed
Much rarer than epidural, inverted mercedes benz on axial imaging
Ix to evaluate extent of disease in paillary thryroid cancer
I-123 whole body scan
Glomus jugulare location
Hypotympanum
Depressed blood flow and metabolism affecting the cerebellar hemisphere after a contralateral supratentorial insult
Crossed cerebellar diaschisis
Dentigerous cyst underlying pathology
Developmental anomily during enamel formation
Skull vault haemangioma histology
Hamartoma with fat, smooth muscle, fibrous tissue and endothelium
Branchial cleft cyst types
Type 1: external auditory canal to angle of mandible
Type 2: Near angle of mandible, anterior and medial to SCM
Type 3: Deep to SCM or posterior
Type 4: Near larynx or thyroid
Acquired vs congenital cholesteatoma
Cochlear promontory is first involved in congenital, spared in acquired
Acoustic neuroma vs meningioma
Meningioma has dural tail, neuroma centered on internal audiory canl
Pars flaccida cholesteatoma commonest eroded bone
Long handle of incus
Optic nerve glioma MRI
Enlarged optic nerve with T1 hypo and t2 hyperintensity
High T2 in cystic areas and enhancing mural nodule
Ameloblastoma
Well circumscribed lesion surrounding an unerupted tooth
Dentigerous cyst