Clinical Imaging of Spinal Trauma

Zoran Rumboldt, M.D., is a Professor of Radiology and serves as the Neuroradiology Section Chief and Fellowship Program Director at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina. Dr Rumboldt has published over 90 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals. He has been an invited speaker at major national radiological meetings and has written over 30 review articles and book chapters. His book, Brain Imaging with MRI and CT Diagnosis: An Image Pattern Approach (Cambridge) was published in 2012. His primary research interests are in imaging of head and neck cancer, brain tumors, stroke and spinal disorders.

Part I. Normal Variants and Mimickers: 1. Vascular channels Zoran Rumboldt; 2. Pars defects Eytan Raz and Zoran Rumboldt; 3. Unfused C1 arches Russel Chapin; 4. Ponticulus posticus Russel Chapin and Zoran Rumboldt; 5. Os Odontoideum Russel Chapin and Zoran Rumboldt; 6. Limbus vertebra Russel Chapin; 7. Nuchal ligament ossification Russel Chapin; 8. CT motion artifacts Alessandro Cianfoni; Part II. Recommendations, Pitfalls and Controversies: 9. When and how to scan Vikas Agarwal; 10. Role of plain films Gregory A. Vorona and Eytan Raz; 11. CT streak artifacts Zoran Rumboldt; 12. MRI after a negative CT Stephen R. Love and Stephen P. Kalhorn; 13. Stable and unstable injuries Abhay Varma and Alessandro Cianfoni; 14. Whiplash injury Abhay Varma and Stephen P. Kalhorn; 15. Findings likely to be missed Zoran Rumboldt; Part III. Trauma to Uncompromised Spine: 16. Simple compression fracture Hrvoje Vavro; 17. Occipital condyle fracture Russel Chapin and Hrvoje Vavro; 18. C1 lateral mass fracture Doris Dodig; 19. Anterior or posterior atlas fractures Doris Dodig and Zoran Rumboldt; 20. Odontoid fractures types 1 and 3 Doris Dodig and Abhay Varma; 21. Unilateral facet dislocation Zoran Rumboldt; 22. Isolated fracture of the lamina Zoran Rumboldt; 23. Isolated transverse process fracture Zoran Rumboldt; 24. Isolated spinous process fracture Doris Dodig; 25. Vertebral body edema/microfracture Emanuele Pravata; 26. Jefferson's fracture Russel Chapin; 27. Burst fractures at other levels Hrvoje Vavro and Zoran Rumboldt; 28. Odontoid fracture Type 2 Daniela Distefano and Alessandro Cianfoni; 29. Hangman's fracture Emanuele Pravata; 30. Bilateral facet dislocation Hrvoje Vavro and Abhay Varma; 31. Chance-like fracture Zoran Rumboldt and Hrvoje Vavro; 32. Flexion teardrop fracture Emanuele Pravata; 33. Extension teardrop fracture Hrvoje Vavro and Zoran Rumboldt; 34. Spinal cord injury Vikas Agarwal and Abhay Varma; 35. Nerve root avulsion Daniela Distefano and Abhay Varma; 36. Subarachnoid hemorrhage Zoran Rumboldt; 37. Subdural hematoma Daniela Distefano; 38. Epidural hematoma Emanuele Pravata; 39. Disk herniation Eytan Raz and Abhay Varma; 40. Vertebral artery injury Vikas Agarwal and Alessandro Cianfoni; 41. Ligamentous injury Doris Dodig and Zoran Rumboldt; 42. Penetrating injuries Zoran Rumboldt and Abhay Varma; Part IV. Thoracolumbar Trauma Classification: 43. TLICS scoring and compression/burst injury Vikas Agarwal and Russel Chapin; 44. TLICS translation/rotational injury Russel Chapin and Zoran Rumboldt; 45. TLICS distraction injury Russel Chapin; Part V. Specifics of Pediatric Spinal Trauma: 46. Specific pitfalls and measurements Alisa Sumkin and Giulio Zuccoli; 47. SCIWORA Orrie Close and Giulio Zuccoli; 48. Atlanto-occipital dislocation Michael Paul Yannes and Zoran Rumboldt; 49. Atlanto-axial distraction Michael Paul Yannes and Giulio Zuccoli; 50. Atlanto-axial rotatory subluxation Giulio Zuccoli and Alessandro Cianfoni; 51. Osteogenesis Imperfecta Orrie Close and Giulio Zuccoli; 52. Abusive spinal injury Orrie Close and Zoran Rumboldt; Part VI. Trauma to Compromised Spine: 53. Malignant vertebral body compression fracture Alessandro Cianfoni; 54. Benign vertebral body compression fracture Alessandro Cianfoni; 55. Sacral insufficiency fracture Daniela Distefano; 56. Ankylosed spine fractures Russel Chapin.