Neuroradiology board review lecture 1 case 5

Neuroradiology board review. This lecture is geared towards the ABR core exam for residents, but it would be useful for review for the ABR certifying exam or certificate of added qualification (CAQ) exam for neuroradiology. This case has a patient with Parkinsonian symptoms and shows a nuclear medicine scan of the basal ganglia. This scan is an I131-ioflupane scan, or DaTscan. In this, the normal distribution is in both the caudate and putamen (like a comma). In parkinsonian syndromes, the putamen loses it