PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - H Hartjes
AU  - K Roosen
AU  - W Grote
AU  - A Buch
AU  - A Brenner
AU  - K Ruhnau
AU  - H Hirche
TI  - Cervical disk syndromes: value of metrizamide myelography and diskography.
DP  - 1983 May 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 644--645
VI  - 4
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/4/3/644.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/4/3/644.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1983 May 01; 4
AB  - This paper reports on the respective diagnostic values of myelography with water-soluble contrast media and diskography in a study of 100 patients examined between 1979 and 1981 and operated on because of cervical disk disease. The results of the study led to a change of the diagnostic procedures formerly applied in radicular syndromes (i.e., diskography, and then perhaps myelography) and in cervical myelopathy (myelography, rarely followed by diskography). Now cervical metrizamide myelography is always performed first. Diskography is only indicated in radicular syndromes to determine the segment causing clinical symptoms when there is a polysegmental space-occupying lesion on the myelogram in combination with a mono- or oligoradicular neurologic symptomatology; or in the case of a normal myelogram with complaints resistant to conservative treatment.