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Chapter 8. Radiologic Evaluation of Spinal Disease

Jonathan Kleefield

Technical Considerations

Topics Discussed:

cervical spine ct; cervical spine mri; lumbar vertebra; magnetic resonance imaging; ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament; radiography of spine; spinal diseases; spinal mri.

Excerpt:

"As the millennium has just passed, it is appropriate to review the significant advances in spinal imaging that have occurred in the preceding quarter century. Before then, plain film radiography, conventional tomography, and myelography with either gas or oily material as contrast agents had been the only methods available for imaging abnormalities involving the vertebrae, intervertebral disks, spinal cord, or cauda equina...."

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