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Jun 25
2009

Revisiting Chiari

Posted by Prashant Bhatt in Reading films , Neurosurgeons , Clinical-Radiology sessions

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Prashant Bhatt

Ever since the initial post mortem description by Chiari in 1891 of the group

Of malformations that bears his name, it seems there have always been more questions

On this subject than answers.

....Ball and Crone

Conversations with Dr.Abdul Adim Ben Ashor, (AABA) Consultant Neurosurgeon

Trained in Christian Albrecht University, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

The support specialties are the eyes and physicians of the surgeons. This was taught to me by my father, a Cardiac anesthetist. Finding myself in a support specialty (Radiology) I have found this lesson useful over the years, if one has to retain relevance one has to be the eyes and physicians of the surgeons, and guide them through their adventures and ‘misadventures'.

The way one looks at the posterior fossa and base of skull, is one of the distinguishing features between a person who knows how to read a MRI and the ones who just pass off a few changes in the normal template.