Gadolinium DTPA Enhancement Characteristics of the Rat Sciatic Nerve after Crush Injury at 4.7T [SPINE]

CONCLUSIONS: Gd-DTPA enhancement of peripheral nerves may only occur above a certain crush-severity threshold. This phenomenon may explain the intermittent observation of Gd-DTPA enhancement of peripheral nerves after traumatic injury. The observation of enhancement may be useful in judging the severity of injury after nerve trauma.

http://www.ajnr.org/cgi/content/abstract/39/1/177?rss=1

Source: American Journal of Neuroradiology - January 11, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Hill, B. J., Padgett, K. R., Kalra, V., Marcillo, A., Bowen, B., Pattany, P., Dietrich, D., Quencer, R. Tags: SPINE Source Type: research