Click Here to return To Results

 

Cervical Spine Disk Herniation:Comparison of CT and 3DFT Gradient Echo MR Scans J Comput Assist Tomogr 16:345-351, Yousem,D.M.,et al, 1992 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract The purpose of this study was to compare CT and MR for the detection of cervical disk herniations.Nineteen patients suspected of harboring degenerative disk disease of the cervical spine underwent thin contiguous section Ct myelography(CTM)and this contiguous section three-dimensional Fourier transform(2DFT)gradient echo MR at 67 disk levels.Blinded readings of a high intensity CSF MR technique for the presence or absence of disk herniation were performed by three neuroradiologists.The intraobserver CT- MR concordances ranged from 84 to 89%.Using CTM as the paragon test,MR demonstrated a sensitivity of 79-91%and a specificity of 82-88%for disk herniation.Mean MR-CT concordance(86%)was nearly equivalent to that of CT- CT intraobserver concordance(88%).We conclude that thin section 3DFT gradient echo MR with high intensity CSF is a reliable method to screen for degenerative disk disease in the cervical spine,since the agreement between MR and CTM is comparable with the intraobserver agreement of CTM.

Related Tags

(click to filter results - removes previous filter) CAT scan herniated disc herniated disc,cervical MRI MRI,abnormal MRI,CAT scan compared to MRI,spine

Click Here to return To Results