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Neurologist. 🥼 Dementia and Neurodegenerative Disorders / 🎵, 📚, Med Edu and 🧠. Social Media Co-Editor for @AMEVASC1/@ArchNeurocien . #INNN #MédicaSur🤓🇲🇽

Dec 16, 2022, 9 tweets

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: MRI features.

#Neurology #Neurotwitter #MRI #educational #Tweetorial

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1⃣ Empty sella turcica (🏹)

🚨Flattened appearance of the pituitary gland against the floor of the sella turcica (🔼)

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2⃣ Enlarged Meckel caves bilaterally, filled with CSF (🏹)

Related to Temporal Lobe Epilepsy? Maybe

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3⃣ Cerebellar tonsillar ectopia

Similar to Chiari I. 🤔

Differences? Ectopia is acquired and it has normal rounded morphology 🤓

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4⃣ Optic nerve head protrusion (🏹)

🚨 Distention of the optic nerve sheaths by CSF (🔼)

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5⃣ Postcontrast enhancement of the optic nerve head bilaterally 👀

It can be seen in other disorders, history and physical exam are 🔑 for Diff Dx

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6⃣Transverse sinus stenosis

One side or both sides

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7⃣ Flattening of the posterior globes

🚨Dilated optic nerve sheath

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Sources
1.- Eye (Lond). 2022 Dec 12. doi: 10.1038/s41433-022-02361-3 (favorite paper of the week, so far)
2.- Pract Neurol. 2014 Dec;14(6):380-90.
doi: 10.1136/practneurol-2014-000821
3.- J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2018.Oct;89(10):1088-1100 doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2017-317440

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