Dr. Hrishikesh A. Kale

AREA(S) OF INTEREST:

Neuroradiology, Spine and Head/Neck Imaging

Asst. Professor, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center / University of Pittsburgh 2012-2017

Clinical Asst. Professor, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, 2006-2012

Publications (in print and online)

• H A Kale, K R Rathod, S R Prasad, C Madiwale, R Sheth Mandibular Haemophilic pseudotumour containing a fluid-fluid level. BJR 74(2001), 186-188
• Rathod K, Kale H, Narlawar R, Hardikar J, Kulkarni V, Joseph J.Unusual "floating balls" appearance of an ovarian cystic teratoma: sonographic and CT findings.  J Clin Ultrasound 2001 Jan; 29(1):41-3
• Patankar T, Krishnan A, Patkar D, Kale H, Prasad, Shah J, Castillo Imaging in isolated sacral tuberculosis: a review of 15 cases. M.Skeletal Radiol.2000; 29:392-396
• Srinivasa P, Gala B, Patkar D, Kale H.Multiple intracranial lipomas, hypogenetic corpus callosum and vestibular schwannoma: an unusual spectrum of mr findings in a Patient .J Shah.J Postgrad Med/Vol45, 1999
• Maheshwari S, Kale HA, Desai SB, KohliA.Magnetic resonance imaging findings in an unusual case of atlanto axial dislocation and vertebral artery-vein fistulas in a patient of neurofibromatosis-1. AustralasRadiol. 2002 Sep; 46(3): 316-8
• Hrishikesh KA, Narlawar RS, Desai SB, Aniruddha K, Maheshwari S. Aneurysmal bone cyst of the ethmoid bone. Br J Radiol. 2002 Nov; 75(899): 916-8.
• Kale H, Narlawar RS, RathodK .Renal fungal ball: an unusual sonographic finding.
• J Clin Ultrasound. 2002 Mar-Apr; 30(3): 178-80.
• 8.Zacharia TT, Shah JR, Patkar D, Kale H, Sindhwani V. MRI in Ankle Tuberculosis: Review of 14 cases. AustralasRadiol. 2003 Mar; 47(1): 11-6
• HA Kale, RS Narlawar, S Maheshwari, SB Desai, A Kohli, CNS Blastomycosis, Mimic of Meningioma. Ind J RadiolImag 2002 12:4:483-485
• Kale HA, Sklar E. MRI Findings in CIDP with Intracranial findings and Enhancing thickened Cranial and spinal nerves. Australasian Radiology B21-B24, October 2007.
• Sinelnikov A, Kale H. Osteochondromas of the spine. Pictorial review.  ClinRadiol. 2014 Dec; 69(12):e584-e590. doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2014.08.017. Epub 2014 Oct 2
• Fakhran S, Alhilali L, Kale H, Kanal E. Assessment of Acute Adverse Reaction Rates to GadobenateDimeglumine: Review of Over 130,000 Administrations Over the Last 7.5 Years.  2015 Apr; 204(4):703-6. doi: 10.2214/AJR.14.13430.
• A.V. Prabhu, H.A. Kale, B.F. Branstetter IV. Residual Cervical Thymus: A Normal CT Finding That May Be Present throughout Patients' Lives AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2015 36: 1525-1528originally published online on April 16, 2015, 10.3174/ajnr.A4304.  
• A.V. Prabhu, H. Kale AJNR. Case of the Week “Spinal Epidural Hemangioma”. Published on the AJNR website. February 25, 2016.
• Galdys AL, Kale HA, Lacomis D, Vergidis P, Murdoch GH. Clinical Infectious Diseases. Photo Quiz: Progressive right-sided hemiparesis in a man with sarcoidosis. Accepted for publication with revisions.
• H Kale, A.V. Prabhu, E. Kanal. Serial Dilution Study of Gadolinium-Based MR imaging Contrast Agents.( to be submitted to Clinical Radiology)
• H Kale, Prabhu A, Sinelnikov A, B Branstetter.  Fat: Friend or Foe? A review of fat-containing masses within the head and neck. Pictorial review ( Published: Volume 89, Issue 1067, 2016
• H. Kale, A.Muthukrishnan, Hegde S, Agarwal A.  Title: Pericatheter VP shunt catheter fluid collections in adults. Infection, shunt malfunction or worse? Correlation of CT/MR findings with Indium-111 Disodium Pentetate (In-111 DTPA) scan. AJNR (Sept 2017).
• Mawn J, Kale H. AJNR. Case of the Week “Intraorbital foreign body mimicking gas”. (Sept2017)
• Prabhu AV, Donovan AL, Crihalmeanu T, Hansberry DR, Agarwal N, Beriwal S, Kale H, Heller M. Radiology Online Patient Education Materials Provided by Major University Hospitals: Do They Conform to NIH and AMA Guidelines? CurrProblDiagnRadiol [in press].

Presentations / Exhibits:

• Oral presentation for paper titled “Pre op embolization of nasopharyngeal angiofibromas” at the Millennium Congress of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (Delhi) Dec 2000.
• Poster presentation at the annual Residents review course (Mumbai) Nov. 1999-“CT Assessment of Adrenal Masses”.
• Oral presentation in “Excerpta Extraordinaire” for the Annual ASNR, Conference Toronto, Ontario, May20-27, 2005.Kale H, Sklar E, Sternau L. SuprasellarHemangioblastoma producing Obstructive Hydrocephalus and Optic tract edema in a Patient with Von HippelLindau disease.
• Electronic exhibit: Evaluation of Tracheal Size with Changes in Body Mass Index (BMI).ASNR 2014. H Kale, B Branstetter, D Tudorascu
• Oral presentation:  Assesment of Adverse Reaction Rates to GadobenateDimeglumine:  Review of Over 140,000 Administrations over the Last 7.5 years.  ASNR 2014. Fakhran S, Alhilali L, Kale H, Kanal E.
• Electronic exhibit: EE (EE34) Fat: Friend or Foe? A review of fat-containingmasses within the head and neck, Kale H, Sinelnikov A, Branstetter BF. ASHNR 2014.
• Oral presentation #: O-237: Serial Dilution Study of Gadolinium-Based MR imaging Contrast Agents. H Kale, E. Kanal. ASNR 2015.
• Scientific Poster (print) #: P-66.  Residual Cervical Thymus: A Normal CT Finding That May Be Present Throughout Patients' Lives. A.V. Prabhu, H.A. Kale, B.F. Branstetter IV. ASNR 2015.
• R. Yu, H. Kale. A Case of Hirayama Disease (ASNR 2016, ”¢Extraordinaire – Electronic)
• H. Kale, A.Muthukrishnan, Hegde S, Agarwal A.  Title: Pericatheter VP shunt catheter fluid collections in adults. Infection, shunt malfunction or worse? Correlation of CT/MR findings with Indium-111 Disodium Pentetate (In-111 DTPA) scans. (Scientific presentation at ASNR 2016)
• Amount of Epidural Contrast after Fluoroscopically Guided Lumbar Myelograms is associated with Rate of Subsequent Blood Patch Treatment (presented at ASNR 2017).
• A dissecting PCA aneurysm mimicking a Pineal mass and causing Obstructive hydrocephalus (presented at ASNR 2017).
• Cervical thymoma presenting as thyroid mass(presented at ASNR 2017)
• XLIF Technique- What radiologists need to know. November 2017.

Awards:

Recipient of RSNACertificate of Merit Poster Award November 2017