[MRI of the spinal epidural fat in pathology].
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.
Daniel
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Service de Neuroradiologie, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Faculté Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre.
Doyon
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Bekkali
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Delvalle
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Francke
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JP
Husson
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Raybaud
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Thiberge
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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*
IRM de la graisse épidurale rachidienne en pathologie.