Axial MRI of the Lumbar Spine - T2 weighted image at the L4 level. On this view centered over the L4-L5 disk, one can see well the cauda equina surrounded by CSF (note that CSF is bright on ...

Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: T2-weighted MRI of the Lumbar Spine; (Left) Mid-sagittal view; (Right Top) Axial scan at the mid-L3 level; (Right Bottom) Axial scan at the L3-L4 disk level.Note the central ...

Axial rotations of lumbar vertebrae have been measured both in asymptomatic individuals and those with back pain. Rotations that are greater than normal might indicate degenerative spinal instability.

A repeat lumbar MRI revealed diffuse disk desiccation, loss of disk height at L1–S1, diskitis at L1–L2, end-plate erosions at L2–L3 and L4–L5 (Figure 1A and 1B), and vertebral body edema.

Knowing a patient's symptoms helps radiologists in lumbar spine MRI interpretation and diagnosis, according to a study published today in Radiology , a journal of the Radiological Society of North ...

Investigators showed that diagnosis was improved in 56% of patients with lumbar radiculopathy when a new type of oblique MRI fast spin-echo scan of the lumbar neuroforamen was used.David B ...

Radiologists' agreement with reference diagnoses for presumptive pain generator type, level, and side on lumbar spine MRI was almost perfect when knowing symptoms (κ=0.820.90), versus fair ...

Patients with axial spondyloarthritis treated with secukinumab achieved a reduction in spinal pain and improved disease activity measures early in treatment.

Even when an MRI is negative for sacroiliitis, patients could still have axial spondyloarthritis. MRIs of the SI joints are needed, but not of the lumbar spine, he stresses.

Knowing a patient's symptoms helps radiologists in lumbar spine MRI interpretation and diagnosis, according to a study published today in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North ...