Education Objectives - Vascular Diseases

Know the anatomical relationship of the major branches of the circle of Willis and the venous sinus system with both skull/dural landmarks and gyral landmarks.

Know the territories of supply of the major arterial branches, and know the parenchymal structures (nuclei and tracts) and major symptoms affected by lesions of these branches, with particular attention to the brainstem syndromes.

Know the most common causes of nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage and intracerebral hemorrhage.

Know the vascular sequalae of systemic hypertension including the locations of lacunes and hypertensive hemorrhages

Know the clinical and anatomic features of amyloid angiopathy and its pathologic workup.

Know the diagnostic features of temporal arteritis, features suggestive of healed arteritis, and the caliber of vessel usually affected. How do these differ from primary angiitis of the central nervous system and from polyarteritis nodosa.

Know the clinical, anatomic, and pathologic differences between saccular aneurysms, mycotic aneurysms, and atherosclerotic aneurysms.

Know the radiologic, clinical, gross and microscopic features of arteriovenous malformation, capillary teangiectasis, cavernoma and venous malformation.

Know the mode of inheritance and the tumors/malformations associated with von Hippel-Lindau disease and Sturge-Weber disease.