RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Cervical disk syndromes: value of metrizamide myelography and diskography.
JF American Journal of Neuroradiology
JO Am. J. Neuroradiol.
FD American Society of Neuroradiology
SP 644
OP 645
VO 4
IS 3
A1 H Hartjes
A1 K Roosen
A1 W Grote
A1 A Buch
A1 A Brenner
A1 K Ruhnau
A1 H Hirche
YR 1983
UL http://www.ajnr.org/content/4/3/644.abstract
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.