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2317130

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-4-24
pubmed:abstractText
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and plain X-ray and CT studies were performed in patients with a history of lumbar back pain due to spinal disc disease. Spin-echo pulse sequences (SE), phase-contrast techniques (partial saturation sequences with delayed readout, PS), and fat-suppressing inversion recovery sequences (STIR) were employed. In 74 of 325 patients, PS and STIR images displayed vertebral marrow changes adjacent to the end-plates of the affected segments. Bacterial infection, however, could be excluded. In six patients histological diagnosis showed substitution of hematopoietic marrow by fatty tissue, cartilaginous particles, degeneration of fat cells, and an increase in extracellular fluid with different components. The etiology is still unclear, but a correlation with lumbar disc disease is demonstrated. These vertebral marrow changes were best displayed with STIR and phase-contrast MR sequences, both providing contrast changes superior to T2-weighted SE techniques.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0936-8051
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
109
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
75-82
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
New aspects of lumbar disc disease. MR imaging and histological findings.
pubmed:affiliation
Orthopedic Clinic, Bremen-Lesum, Federal Republic of Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article