Howard A. Rowley MD, Presenter: Research Consultant, Bracco Group Research Consultant, Guerbet SA Research Consultant, General Electric Company Consultant, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd Consultant, W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc Consultant, H. Lundbeck A/S

1) To be familiar with traumatic brain injury demographics and classification schemes. 2) Be able to apply appropriateness criteria for head trauma imaging in children and adults. 3) Identify key imaging patterns and pitfalls in the evaluation of brain and neurovascular trauma.

This lecture on Acute Head Trauma is divided into 4 parts: Part 1 will briefly review TBI demographics. Part 2 will discuss the current imaging approach to acute TBI in today’s clinical practice. Part 3 will briefly describe the most common TBI classification schemes. Part 4 will illustrate the imaging manifestations of the different injuries located in the extra-axial space (e.g., scalp and skull injury; epidural, subdural, subarachnoid and intraventricular collections), and the intra-axial space (e.g., dysautoregulation, contusion, hematoma, penetrating TBI, axonal injury, fat emboli). Note that a common theme throughout the lecture will be “Lessons I’ve Learned Since Neuroradiology Fellowship” ;-)

Rowley, H, CNS Trauma and Neurovascular Injury .  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/13011108.html