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Anatomic Structure Changes Craniofacial bones and skull base Bone destruction, tumorous infiltration, intracranial extension Paranasal sinuses Ethmoidal Bone destruction Maxillar Opacification (fluid intense, tissue intense) Sphenoidal Enhancement Intracranial and extra-axial Meninges Epidural With or without bone destruction Subdural Infiltration, enhancement, symmetry Circumventricular organs* Enlargement, cystic formation, enhancement, symmetry Hypothalamic-pituitary region Anterior pituitary Size (empty sella, atrophy, normal, enlarged), symmetry, enhancement Posterior pituitary Size, T1WI hyperintensity present or absent Infundibulum Size (measured in at least 2 planes) normal, thickened >2.6 mm, cranial-caudal different, threadlike <1 mm Hypothalamus Mass lesions, enhancement Intracranial and intra-axial, parenchymal WM Vascular pattern Symmetry VRSs on T2WI† Enhancement, space-occupying effect, edema Perivascular spaces Visibility on T2WI Brainstem, pons Leukoencephalopathy-like pattern Cerebellar WM enhancement T2WI hyperintensity, T1WI isointensity or hypointensity, not space-occupying GM Basal ganglia T1WI hyperintensity or hypointensity Cerebellar dentate nuclei T2WI isointensity, hypointensity, or hyperintensity Atrophy Localized, diffuse
* Pineal gland, ependyma, choroid plexus.
† VRS indicates Virchow-Robin space.