Table of Contents

I.PAIN AND VERTIGO.- Voltage-gated potassium channel (VGKC)-complex antibody limbic encephalitis.- Cranial bone changes in megaloblastic anemia due to anorexia nervosa.- Multinodular and vacuolating neuronal tumor (MVNT).- Intracranial extra-axial teratoma in an adult female patient.- Ruptured dermoid cyst and ischemic stroke (after in-vitro fertilization treatment).- Trigeminal nerve cavernoma.- Aortic pseudoaneurysm eroding thoracic spine.- Spinal extradural arachnoid cyst.- Spinal intramedullary ependymal cysts.- Pilocytic astrocytoma at the L5-S1 level.- CAPNON.- II. EPILEPTIC SEIZURE.- Antiphospholipid syndrome in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus elements.- Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES): holohemispheric watershed pattern.- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) and hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS).- Citrobacter Koseri brain abscess in chronic cocaine addict.- Intaventricular meningioma.- Large cavernoma vs brain tumor.- Supratentorial extraventricular ependymoma vs arteriovenous malformation.- Pachymeningeal involvement in acute myeloid leukemia (AML).- Gliosarcoma.- Is this really a gliobastoma?.- Extradural spinal meningioma.- Chronic venous sinus thrombosis vs brain metastases.- Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) after obinutuzumab treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).- Large cerebral vessel vasculitis in undiagnosed HIV positive patient – meningovascular syphilis.- Cerebral amyloid angiopathy vs primary brain tumor (glioblastoma).

About the Author

Martina Špero was born in 1972 in Zagreb, Croatia, where she graduated from the University of Zagreb Medical School in 1997, and received her PhD from the same University in 2011. She completed a four-year residency in radiology in 2004 and two-year residency in neuroradiology in 2010, prior to receiving her European diploma in Neuroradiology in 2011.

She currently works as a neuroradiologist at the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology of the University Hospital Dubrava in Zagreb, and prepares telemedicine reports for several county hospitals in Croatia. Her published work includes several peer-reviewed articles and scientific papers. She is a member of several scientific societies, including the Croatian Society of Radiology, the European Society of Radiology and the European Society of Neuroradiology.

 

Hrvoje Vavro was born in 1973 in Sisak, Croatia. He graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb in 1997, completed the radiology residency program in 2004 and became a board certified neuroradiologist in 2010. In 2011 he acquired his European Diploma in Neuroradiology.

He is currently working as an attending neuroradiologist at the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology of the University Hospital Dubrava in Zagreb and as a part-time consultant neuroradiologist at the Radiochirurgia Zagreb special hospital. He also collaborates with the Telemedicine Clinic as a neuroradiologist and emergency radiologist reporting for hospitals in the United Kingdom and reports neuroradiology cases using telemedicine for several county hospitals in Croatia. He has also gained on-site international experience working in the United Kingdom as a consultant neuroradiologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast and at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.

He is a member of several national and international professional societies, including the Croatian Society of Radiology, European Society of Radiology (ESR), European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR) and Cardiovascular and Interventional Society of Europe (CIRSE). His publications include several book chapters, peer-reviewed articles and scientific papers.

Reviews

“The greater the volume and quality of information available to the reporting neuroradiologist, the higher the chance of the correct diagnosis being made. … each case begins with a page or two of detailed clinical information, accompanied by good quality CT and/or MR images with clear legends.” (Mark Igra, RAD Magazine, January, 2022)