Transforaminal interbody fusion (TLIF) 116
Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) 114
Transient ischemic attack (TIA) –– See Stroke
–– defined 216 –– prognosis 216 –– risk 216
Transit arteries 234 Trans-nasal trans-sphenoidal
approach 107, 110 Trans-sphenoidal approach
107, 110
Trans-sphenoidal positioning
98
Transverse cerebral fissure 49 Transverse ligament 68 Transverse ligament 66 Transverse myelitis 353 Transverse occipital sulcus 45 Transverse process 63 Transverse sinus 42, 44, 76, 77 Trapezius 26, 28
Trauma See also Head injury; Spinal trauma; Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) See Head injury
–– grading 131
–– hyponatremia in 124 –– incidence of 130
–– secondary 133 Tremor 31
–– essential 292, 295, 310, 311,
351
–– kinetic 295, 298
–– postural 295, 296, 298 –– resting 291, 295, 298 Trephining kit (1700s) 14 Triceps 29
Triceps reflex 38
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCA) 199, 202, 213
Trigeminal nerve 52 Trigeminal nerve 26, 27, 53, 60,
272
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) 197, 198, 212, 319, 322
Trihexyphenidyl 298, 299
Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxaz-
ole 346
Triphasic response 124 Trochlear nerve 56 Trochlear nerve 26, 51, 53, 54,
60, 272
Trochlear nerve palsy 365 Tuberculosis 186, 334 Tuberculous vertebral
osteomyelitis 339, 341 Tuberculum cuneatum 54 Tuberculum gracile 54 Tumor(s) See also Metastatic
disease
–– angiocentric glioma 256 –– angiolipomas 248
–– angiosarcomas 250 –– astroblastoma 256
–– astrocytomas 177, 251, 323 –– atypical teratoid rhabdoid
259
–– benign mesenchymal 248 –– chondromas 248
–– chondrosarcoma 246, 321 –– chordoid glioma of third
ventricle 254
–– chordomas 246, 247, 321 –– choriocarcinoma 261
–– craniopharyngiomas 262,
263, 281, 324
–– diffuse infiltrating glioma
251, 252
–– embryonal 257, 258
–– embryonal carcinomas 260 –– ependymomas 177, 256,
257, 265, 323
–– Ewing sarcoma 250
–– extra-axial, in neuroradiology 94
–– fibrosarcomas 250 –– germ cell 260, 266 –– germinomas 260 –– glomus 321
–– hemangioblastoma 251,
322
–– hemangiopericytoma 248 –– in neuroradiology 92
–– intra-axial, in neuroradiology 94
–– leiomyosarcomas 250 –– lipomas 248
–– liposarcoma 250
–– medulloblastoma 257, 258,
324
–– melanocytic 251 –– meningeal 248, 250
–– meningioma 94, 248, 249, 250, 321, 324
–– mesenchymal 246, 247, 249, 250
–– metastatic
–––in neuroradiology 94
–– neuroepithelial brain 251
–––pediatric 254 –– ocular 323
–– of cranial and paraspinal nerves 260
–– osteochondromas 248 –– osteomas 248
–– papillary, of pineal region 256
–– pilocytic astrocytoma 252 –– pilocytic myxoid
astrocytoma 254
–– pineal parenchymal 256 –– pineal parenchymal of
intermittent differentiation 256
–– pineal region 256, 265, 325 –– pineoblastoma 256
–– pineocytoma 256
–– pituitary 261, 321, 324
–– primary central nervous system lymphoma 245, 246, 338
–– primitive neuroectodermal 250, 257, 258
–– radiation-induced 327 –– rhabdomyomas 248
–– schwannomas 177, 322,
324
–– sellar 261
–– solitary fibrous 248 –– spinal 176
–– subependymoma 256, 265 –– tectal glioma 254
–– teratoma 261, 266 –– yolk sac 260 Tuning fork 28, 32
U
Ulnar nerve 29
Ulnar nerve syndrome 204 Ultrasound, neural tube defects
in 276
Unfractionated heparin 222 United States Medical Licensing
Examination (USMLE) 1, 2, 3, 374
Upper motor neuron pattern 31, 39
Uveal melanoma 323
Uvula deviation 28
V
Vagal trigone 58
Vagus nerve 26, 28, 53, 57, 272 Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)
308, 309, 310 Valacyclovir 201 Valproic acid 139 Vancomycin 338, 341 Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease (vCJD) 349 Varicella-zoster virus (VZV)
201
Vascular awards 387 Vascular malformations 234,
395.
–– See also Arteriovenous malformation (AVM), Cavernomas, Moyamoya disease
Vascular reading resources
382
Vasculitis 355
Vasospasm, in subarachnoid hemorrhage 227
VBO See Vertebral body osteomyelitis (VBO)
VCC See Ventriculocystocister-
notomy (VCC)
Vein of Galen 78
411