RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Metrizamide CT Myelography in Cervical Myelopathy and Radiculopathy: Correlation with Conventional Myelography and Surgical Findings
JF American Journal of Neuroradiology
JO Am. J. Neuroradiol.
FD American Society of Neuroradiology
SP 59
OP 64
VO 6
IS 1
A1 Badami, J. Paul
A1 Norman, David
A1 Barbaro, Nicholas M.
A1 Cann, Christopher E.
A1 Weinstein, Philip R.
A1 Sobel, David F.
YR 1985
UL http://www.ajnr.org/content/6/1/59.abstract
AB Conventional myelography, metrizamide computed tomographic (CT) myelography, and surgical findings were correlated in 30 patients with cervical radiculopathy and/or myelopathy. In 60% of patients, metrizamide CT myelography provided significant additional information including better characterization of the abnormality, lateralization if the conventional myelogram was indeterminate, more definitive demonstration of cord atrophy, foraminal narrowing not appreciated on myelography, and demonstration of abnormalities distal to a myelographic block. In no case was a myelographic abnormality not detected on metrizamide CT myelography. In patients with cervical myelopathy, a cross-sectional diameter of the cord equaling less than 50% of the subarachnoid space is predictive of poor patient response to surgical intervention.