Broca's area on preoperative functional brain MR imaging, but disk terminology may be the
more critical topic for the daily practice of neuroradiology. Most MR imaging studies …

Through the past decades, many attempts have been made to standardize lumbar disk
herniation–related terminology (1, 2). Two different, and not necessarily parallel, sets of …

In this issue of the AJNR (page 269), Schellhass et al prompt this reader to reflect on the
nature of science, and the concept of the hypothesis. In many ways, one has to admire this …

TO THE EDITOR: In a recent issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, my interest was
raised by the article of our Italian colleagues Drs. Irace and Corona (Irace C, Corona C: How …

The words we use matter. That is why we build lexicons. I want to petition for the removal of
the phrase “disc osteophyte complex”(DOC) from the neuroradiology lexicon. I am seeing …

The authors present a small case series of 5 patients with herniated lumbar discs. 1 The
cases were unusual in that the herniations apparent on MRI were on the opposite side of the …

Diagnosis of disc herniation is a daily task for radiologists. Although diagnosis is usually
straightforward, it may become more difficult due to disc location. Disc herniations in the …

Pierre Masson (1880–1959) Despite these somewhat disheartening words from the famous
French pathologist, we should not give up solving the present mess associated with the …

Version 2.0 updates the initial article, which provided a standardized nomenclature used
extensively by imaging and clinical physicians over the past 13 years. Although the original …

The lumbosacral CT scan demonstrates abnormal extradural soft tissue in the right
posterolateral aspect of the spinal canal barely distinguishable from the ligamentum flava …