ArticleJournal of spine surgery (Hong Kong)2017
Static and dynamic cervical MRI: two useful exams in cervical myelopathy.
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- Correlation and reliability of cervical sagittal alignment parameters between plain radiographs and multipositional MRI images.Spinal cord · 2023Article
- The value of dynamic MRI in cervical spondylotic myelopathy: About 24 cases.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
- Optimizing the Application of Surgery for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 10].Global spine journal · 2022Article
- Influence of dynamic neck motion on the clinical usefulness of multi-positional MRI in cervical degenerative spondylosis.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 value of dynamic MRI in the treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy: a protocol for a prospective randomized clinical trial.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2020Article
- Dynamic Cord Compression Causing Cervical Myelopathy.Neurospine · 2019Article
- Resolution of Postsurgical Diplopia, Paresthesia, and Weakness Following Inpatient Massage Therapy: A Case Report.Global advances in health and medicine · 2019Article
- Role of dynamic MRI in occult cervical canal stenosis.BMJ case reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundCervical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the gold standard exam in the assessment of patients affected by cervical myelopathy and is very useful in planning the operation. Herein we present a series of patients affected by long tract symptoms who underwent dynamic MRI in addition to the static exam.
methodsIn the period between March 2010 and March 2012, three-hundred-ten patients referred to our department since affected by neck/arm pain or symptoms related to cervical myelopathy. Thirty-eight patients complained "long-tract symptoms" related to cervical myelopathy. This series of patients was enrolled in the study. All patients underwent clinical and neurological exam. In all the cases, a static and dynamic cervical MRI was executed using a 3.0-T superconducting MR unit (Intera, Philips, Eindhoven, Netherlands). The dynamic exam was performed with as much neck flexion and extension the patient could achieve alone. On T2-weigthed MRI each level was assessed independently by two neuroradiologists and Muhle scale was applied.
resultsAccording to Muhle's classification of spinal cord compressions, static MRI demonstrated 156 findings: 96 (61.54%) anterior and 60 (38.46%) posterior. Dynamic MRI showed 186 spinal cord compressions: 81 (43.5%) anterior and 105 (56.5%) posterior. The anterior compressions were: grade 1 in 23 cases (28.4%), grade 2 in 52 cases (64.2%), grade 3 in 6 cases (7.4%). The posterior compressions were: 32 (30.48%) of grade 1, 60 (57.14%) of grade 2, 13 (12.38%) of grade 3.
conclusionsThe dynamic MRI demonstrated a major number of findings and spinal cord compressions compared to the static exam. Finally, we consider the dynamic exam able to provide useful information in these patients, but we suggest a careful evaluation of the findings in the extension exam since they are probably over-expressed.
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