title: [MRI of the spinal epidural fat in pathology].
abstract: The authors report about their experience with the merits of the normal systematization of epidural fat with MRI. On sagittal sections, this fat has a variable appearance, but its location along the spinal canal is constant. On axial sections, its morphology is suggestive of the level of section: cervical, upper or lower thoracic, lumbar. Some changes in this fat are precious data to explain local hypertrophy (scoliosis) or to locate an intra- or extradural process.
authors.affiliation: Service de Neuroradiologie, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Faculté Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Daniel
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Doyon
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bekkali
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Delvalle
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Francke
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Husson
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Raybaud
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Thiberge
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015174:Epidural Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D004824:Epidural Space; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000473:pathology*
vernacular_title: IRM de la graisse épidurale rachidienne en pathologie.