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3489378

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-10-15
pubmed:abstractText
Sixty patients with suspected lumbar herniated disk and/or canal stenosis were studied prospectively with surface coil MRI, CT, and/or myelography, and the results were compared with the surgically confirmed abnormality. Forty-eight patients had lumbar surgery at 62 levels. There were no negative explorations. Thirty-nine patients had a myelogram and CT. Thirty of the CTs were performed following the injection of metrizamide for myelography. Nine patients had a CT without intrathecal contrast material 1 to several days before the myelogram. Six patients had myelography only, and three patients had CT only. All studies were evaluated for the location and type of disease in a forced choice fashion. Independent of the surgically correlated levels, there was 86.8% agreement between the MR and CT studies in all patients at 151 levels and 87.2% agreement between MR and myelography at 218 levels. At the operative levels, there was 82.6% agreement between MR and surgical findings for both type and location of disease; 83% agreement between CT and surgical findings; and 71.8% agreement between myelography and surgical findings. There was 92.5% agreement when MR and CT were used jointly, and 89.4% agreement when CT and myelography were used jointly. The results of this study indicate that a technically adequate MR examination was equivalent to CT and myelography in the diagnosis of lumbar canal stenosis and herniated disk disease. CT and MR can be complementary studies, and surface coil MR can be viewed as an alternative to myelography.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0361-803X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
147
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
757-65
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Lumbar herniated disk disease and canal stenosis: prospective evaluation by surface coil MR, CT, and myelography.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study