Correlation between Preoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Signal Intensity Changes and Clinical Outcomes in Patients Surgically Treated for Cervical Myeloradiculopathy.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with longer symptom durations had high grades of intramedullary cord T2-weighted MRI SI changes. Age and preoperative neurological status were not significantly correlated with the existence of intramedullary cord SI changes. However, patients without or with mild and diffuse intramedullary cord T2-weighted MRI SI changes had better postoperative neurological recovery than those with sharp and focal SI changes. PMID: 28443160 [PubMed]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28443160?dopt=Abstract

Source: Asian Spine Journal - April 28, 2017 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Asian Spine J Source Type: research