title: Preoperative and postoperative neuroradiologic evaluation of lumbar disk herniation.
abstract: Three hundred and forty patients with signs and symptoms of lumbar disk disease were evaluated preoperatively by conventional X-rays, computed tomography, and 2.0 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). High-resolution T2 weighted MRI provided a truly noninvasive myelogram. The operative findings were predicted by and correlated with the neuroradiologic studies. High-resolution MRI with intravenous gadolinium-DTPA (Magnevist, Berlex) has been particularly useful in evaluating patients with a history of prior disk surgery and patients who were not relieved of pain by lumbar diskectomy.
authors.affiliation: MRI Diagnostics of Rockland, Inc., Suffern, NY.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tash
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Strauss
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Savitz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed