Covers all facets of emergency radiology in patients with head and spine injuries Focuses on critical diagnostic and therapeutic features when time makes a difference Written by an international team of experts in emergency radiology

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Mariano Scaglione, Prof, is Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Sassari, Sassari, IT & Honorary Prof./Consultant Radiologist at the James Cook University Hospital, UK. He has served as President of the Italian College of Emergency Radiology (SIRM; 2010-4) and Chairman of the Emergency Radiology Subcommittee for the ECR (2012). He is a founding member and President of the European Society of Emergency Radiology (2015-7). Dr. Scaglione has delivered more than 400 lectures at national and international meetings. He has authored or co-authored more than 160 articles and 32 book chapters and is the editor of 12 books in the field of Emergency Radiology. Cem Çalli, MD, is the Chief of Neuroradiology Section in Ege University Medical Faculty, Izmir, Turkey. He has served as an executive committee member of Turkish Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Turkish Society of Radiology, Secretary General of Turkish Society of Neuroradiology, Secretary General of European Society of Emergency Radiology, Treasurer of European Society of Neuroradiology, and Chairman of Membership Committee of European Society of Neuroradiology. Mario Muto, MD, is chairman of the Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Head of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology of Cardarelli Hospital in Naples, Italy. He is incoming President of the Italian Association of Neuroradiology. He has been advisor and chairman of the Spine committee of ESNR (2009-2017) and chairman of ECR subcommittee neuro in 2015.He is author of 110 international papers, 10 book chapters and editor of two books. Stefan Wirth, Prof, was Vice Chair of the Department of Clinical Radiology, University of Munich, Germany until 2019. Then he took over the Chair of Radiology, Pediatric Radiology, Neuroradiology and Nuclear Medicine at the Schwarzwald-Baar-Hospital in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, which is associated with the University of Freiburg, Germany. During his Presidency of the European Society of Emergency Radiology 2017-2019, he introduced the European Diploma in Emergency Radiology and developed the first European Radiological Polytrauma Guideline. He is author of more than 150 scientific publications.

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Part I Brain: Traumatic Emergent Injuries.- Imaging of Cranial and Facial Fractures.- Traumatic Haemorrhage.- Non Accidental Injuries. Part II Brain: Non-Traumatic Emergent Injuries.- Acute Stroke: Parenchymal and Vessel Imaging.- Acute Stroke: Management.- Nontraumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage.- Emergent CNS Infections, Inflammations and Tumors.- Toxic-Metabolic Encephalopathies.- Herniation Syndromes.- Basic Neuro-Interventional Spine Interventions.- Part III Spine: Traumatic Emergent Injuries.- Introduction: Traumatic Spinal Cord and Spine Injury. Stability and Instability Concepts.- Traumatic Emergent Injuries: Cranio-Cervical Junction.- Cervical Spine Injury.- Thoraco-Lumbar Spine.- Part IV Spine: Non-Traumatic Emergent Injuries.- Introduction.- Emergent Degenerative and Disc Diseases.- Vascular Injury of the Spinal Cord.- Emergent Tumors and Infections of the Spinal Cord.- Myelitis and Myelopathies.- Spinal Post-Operative Complications.- Basic Neurointerventional Therapeutic Approaches.- Emergency Paediatric Head and Neck.- Part V: Emergencies of the Face and Neck.- Neck Space Anatomy.- Traumatic and Non-Traumatic Head and Neck Infections.