[Fine needle myelography. Current status].
One hundred three patients with different diseases of the vertebral or spinal column were studied with hydrosoluble myelography. In fifty-three patients spinal puncture was carried out with a 25 G needle (fine) and in the remaining 50 patients a 22 G needle (thick) was used. Post myelographic control by means of a scale which we designed permitted the clear establishment of the responsibility of needle diameter in the incidence of complications, fundamentally cephaleas with 11.3% with the 25 G needle vs 66% with the 22 G needle. Following the therapies herein suggested, only rarely was there a complication of little significance thereby encouraging the use of this method when non invasive procedures are insufficient for clarifying diagnostic doubts.
Rossi López
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Servicio de Neurorradiología, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid.
Farés
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Coloma
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009192:Myelography / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009339:Needles; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013129:Spinal Puncture / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation*
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