These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Pathomechanisms of spinal canal stenosis - upright MRI image gallery].
    Author: Niggemann P, Grosskurth D, Beyer HK.
    Journal: Z Orthop Unfall; 2009; 147(2):205-9. PubMed ID: 19358076.
    Abstract:
    AIM: Lumbar spinal canal stenosis is a common disease of the elderly patient, with a high prevalence and clinical importance. MRI is the established method of choice for the imaging of spinal canal stenosis. However, there is often a discrepancy between the clinical symptoms and the spinal canal stenosis as shown using MRI in a supine position. In such cases preoperative functional imaging is often warranted. METHODS: In an image gallery three cases of a functional spinal canal stenosis of the lumbar spine are shown. In all three patients a dynamic, positional MRI (upright MRI) was performed. RESULTS: The pathomechanisms of the spinal canal stenosis could be shown in all three cases. CONCLUSION: Using upright MRI a functional spinal canal stenosis can be shown. The pathomechanisms of the spinal canal stenosis are discussed. The possibilities and limitations of this new imaging modality are presented and analysed.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]