Overview
- Focuses on specific imaging features in degenerative spinal disease as related to the presence or absence of signs and symptoms of nerve root involvement
- Reviews the role of different spinal imaging techniques, with special emphasis on MR myelography
- Examines imaging in relation to surgical therapy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
A general consensus exists,that lumbosacral nerve root compression is the primary cause of sciatica and neurogenic claudication, although humoral and vascular factors certainly play a role as well. This book focuses on imaging the various ways in which nerve root compression can come about, and determining which anatomic features are reliably associated with the production of radicular pain. After a discussion of the nature of radicular pain and related symptoms, spinal imaging techniques and options are reviewed, with emphasis on the role of MR myelography in assessing the intradural nerve roots. A chapter on normal topographic, sectional, and functional radiologic anatomy is followed by presentations on pathologic anatomy, addressing mechanisms of nerve root compression, and on pre- and postoperative imaging. Features relevant to prediction of the natural history are discussed, and a section is devoted to the performance and reporting of a spinal imaging study.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lumbar Spinal Imaging in Radicular Pain and Related Conditions
Book Subtitle: Understanding Diagnostic Images in a Clinical Context
Editors: Jan T. Wilmink
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-93830-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-93829-3Due: 04 November 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43238-5Published: 13 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-93830-9Published: 08 February 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 161
Topics: Imaging / Radiology, Neuroradiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery