lumbar spine — Clinical MRI

Disk space infection (L2-3)

July 8, 2013 by Val M. Runge, MD

A 70 year-old woman with chronic kidney disease, on IV antibiotics for osteomyelitis. [...]

Filed Under: Cases, Clinical Imaging, lumbar, Meet The Experts, spine, Val M. Runge, Xiaoming Li
Tagged With: Infection, lumbar spine

Metastases (renal cell, lumbar)

July 8, 2013 by Val M. Runge, MD

A 56 year-old man with back pain [...]

Filed Under: Cases, Clinical Imaging, lumbar, Meet The Experts, spine, thoracic, Val M. Runge, Xiaoming Li
Tagged With: lumbar spine, metastases, thoracic spine

MAGNETOM Aera – Combining Throughput and Highest Quality Spine Imaging in an Optimized Clinical Workflow

March 6, 2014 by MRI

The term WARP summarizes methods to minimize the impact of metal implants on MR image quality. This article introduces different techniques such as high bandwidth, VAT and SEMAC. [...]

Filed Under: cervical, Clinical Imaging, Clinical Methods & Techniques, Clinical Updates, lumbar, spine, thoracic, Uncategorized
Tagged With: cervical spine, lumbar spine, thoracic spine

Synovial cyst

July 6, 2013 by Val M. Runge, MD

Back pain in a 58 year old woman [...]

Filed Under: Cases, Clinical Imaging, lumbar, Meet The Experts, spine, Val M. Runge, Xiaoming Li
Tagged With: Degenerative Disease, lumbar spine

Tethered cord

July 6, 2013 by Val M. Runge, MD

Back pain in a 58 year old woman [...]

Filed Under: Cases, Clinical Imaging, lumbar, Meet The Experts, spine, Val M. Runge, Xiaoming Li
Tagged With: congenital abnormality, lumbar spine

Lumbar vertebral metastases

July 6, 2013 by Val M. Runge, MD

A 61 year old man with small cell carcinoma of the lung [...]

Filed Under: Cases, Clinical Imaging, lumbar, Meet The Experts, spine, Val M. Runge, Xiaoming Li
Tagged With: lumbar spine, metastases

Sacral spinal dysraphism with a meningocele.

July 6, 2013 by J. Ryan Mikus, MD, MS

A 40 year old female with history of spina bifida. [...]

Filed Under: Cases, Clinical Imaging, lumbar, Meet The Experts, spine, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: congenital disease, lumbar spine, spine

Tethered spinal cord

July 6, 2013 by Fei Ai, MD

This 6-year-old girl was referred to physical therapy for baseline evaluation in the spina bifida clinic and for assessment of neurogenic bowel and bladder dysfunction. At birth, this patient was diagnosed with sacral dysgenesis along with tethered cord and a lipoma within the sacral spinal canal. [...]

Filed Under: Cases, Clinical Imaging, lumbar, Meet The Experts, spine, Val M. Runge, Xiaoming Li
Tagged With: congenital abnormality, lumbar spine