The Clinical Usefulness of Preoperative Imaging Studies to Select Pathologic Level in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: Comparative Analysis of Three-Position MRI and Post-Myelographic CT.

CONCLUSION: In the present study, PMCT was still useful in diagnosis of the foraminal stenosis and bony lesion compared to 3P-MRI but showed limitation in disc abnormality and nerve root compression. Even though PMCT may provide valuable additional information in difficult or ambiguous cases, universal standard of 3P-MRI showed higher reliability in detecting pathologic levels in CSM patients. PMID: 30614510 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Turkish Neurosurgery - Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Tags: Turk Neurosurg Source Type: research