ArticleAsian spine journal2016
Diagnosis of Lumbar Foraminal Stenosis using Diffusion Tensor Imaging.
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- Clinical application of diffusion tensor tractography to postoperative C5 palsy.Spinal cord series and cases · 2021Article
- The Haleem-Botchu classification: a novel CT-based classification for lumbar foraminal stenosis.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2021Article
- The Usefulness of Diffusion Tensor Tractography in Diagnosing Neuropathic Pain: A Narrative Review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- Diffusion tensor imaging reveals changes in microstructural integrity along compressed nerve roots that correlate with chronic pain symptoms and motor deficiencies in elderly stenosis patients.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Article
- Recent advances in magnetic resonance neuroimaging of lumbar nerve to clinical applications: A review of clinical studies utilizing Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance neurography.Spine surgery and related research · 2017Review
- Lumbar foraminal stenosis, the hidden stenosis including at L5/S1.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2016Review
- Discrimination between Lumbar Intraspinal Stenosis and Foraminal Stenosis using Diffusion Tensor Imaging Parameters: Preliminary Results.Asian spine journal · 2016Article
- Significant morphometric differences in the L4-L5 intervertebral foramen: A cross-sectional study.Journal of craniovertebral junction & spineArticle
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Abstract
Diagnosis of lumbar foraminal stenosis remains difficult. Here, we report on a case in which bilateral lumbar foraminal stenosis was difficult to diagnose, and in which diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was useful. The patient was a 52-year-old woman with low back pain and pain in both legs that was dominant on the right. Right lumbosacral nerve compression due to a massive uterine myoma was apparent, but the leg pain continued after a myomectomy was performed. No abnormalities were observed during nerve conduction studies. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging indicated bilateral L5 lumbar foraminal stenosis. DTI imaging was done. The extraforaminal values were decreased and tractography was interrupted in the foraminal region. Bilateral L5 vertebral foraminal stenosis was treated by transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion and the pain in both legs disappeared. The case indicates the value of DTI for diagnosing vertebral foraminal stenosis.
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