Nearly all (94%) the patients had abnormal MRI findings, including 72% with disc herniation (more frequently at lower lumbar disc levels), 69% with signs of nerve root compression, 18% with ...

Doctors can use MRI to examine a person’s lower spine, lumbar region, and surrounding tissues. MRI of the spine can show spinal alignment, lumbar disk herniation, inflammation, and more. MRI is ...

MRI screening may help identify spinal ... Thirty-five of the 36 patients with abnormal MRIs met ... "Our findings support obtaining contrast-enhanced MRI of the injection site in ...

Hiroaki Nakashima, MD, of Nagoya, Japan, said the rate of abnormal MRI findings in the cervical spinal increases greatly with age and warned of the dangers of predictive operative decisions News News ...

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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 ...

Each patient was given an 8-minute MRI scan and a lumbar puncture and, after 18 months, they were able to find out what the diagnosis was and whether it matched that of their initial scan.