The value of fat saturation sequences and contrast medium administration in MRI of degenerative disease of the posterior/perispinal elements of the lumbosacral spine
European Radiology, ISSN: 0938-7994, Vol: 17, Issue: 2, Page: 523-531
2007
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- 62
Article Description
Degenerative-inflammatory lumbar spinal pathology is one of the most common reasons why individuals seek medical care, and low back pain is the main symptom among those most commonly associated with this pathologic condition. Pain is commonly attributed to degenerative disc disease, particularly herniated discs, but many different spinal and perispinal structures may undergo degenerative-inflammatory phenomena and produce pain: discs, bone, facet joints, ligaments and muscles. In particular, in patients with non-radicular low back pain, this syndrome may arise from changes of the posterior elements/perispinal tissues of the lumbar spine (i.e., the "posterior vertebral compartment"). They include: facet joint pathology (e.g., osteoarthritis, joint effusion, synovitis and synovial cysts), spondylolysis, spinal/perispinal ligamentous degenerative-inflammatory changes and perispinal muscular changes. It is well known that magnetic resonance is the most sensitive imaging method for the evaluation of spinal degenerative pathology, even in the initial stages of the disease. T2-weighted sequences with fat saturation, and when indicated the use of contrast-enhanced T1-weighted images with fat saturation, permit the visualization of degenerative-inflammatory changes of the posterior elements of the lumbar spine that in most cases would have been overlooked with conventional non-fat suppressed imaging. © Springer-Verlag 2006.
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http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=33846411808&origin=inward; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00330-006-0324-0; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16733673; http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00330-006-0324-0; https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00330-006-0324-0; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00330-006-0324-0; http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/s00330-006-0324-0; http://www.springerlink.com/index/pdf/10.1007/s00330-006-0324-0
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