Spinal cord imaging has significantly benefited from a variety of new MR imaging methods. Recent decades have also witnessed fundamental progress in understanding of the pathophysiology of spinal cord diseases, treatment options, neurosurgical procedures, and endovascular treatments. This textbook provides an interdisciplinary overview of the new imaging modalities, identifies clues for MR imaging diagnosis and differential diagnosis and describes the anatomical background required to understand spinal cord diseases. Important neurological symptoms are highlighted, and modern treatment options for different diseases are fully explained and discussed. High-quality illustrations, including numerous images, are provided for all important spinal cord diseases, documenting relevant anatomical details, special MR imaging methods, differential diagnoses and possible treatment procedures.
Editors and Affiliations
Institute for Neuroradiology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany
Elke Hattingen
Department of Neurology, Sankt Katharinen Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany
Stefan Weidauer
Department of Neurosurgery, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany
Matthias Setzer
Brain Imaging Center (BIC), Department of Neurology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany
Johannes C. Klein
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
Frank Vrionis
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Diseases of the Spinal Cord
Book Subtitle: Novel Imaging, Diagnosis and Treatment
Editors: Elke Hattingen, Stefan Weidauer, Matthias Setzer, Johannes C. Klein, Frank Vrionis