title: Traumatic lumbosacral nerve root meningoceles. The value of myelography, CT and MRI in the assessment of nerve root continuity.
abstract: A case of traumatic lumbar meningoceles at four levels in combination with total and partial nerve root avulsion and with preservation of a nerve root is reported. Several diagnostic imaging techniques (myelography, CT, myelo-CT and MRI) are compared and their value in demonstrating the continuity of the nerve roots is discussed. MRI could assess the continuity of a nerve root in a traumatic meningocele, not demonstrable by myelography or myelo-CT. The combination of myelography, myelo-CT and MRI is likely to provide a complete diagnostic evaluation of nerve root lesions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University Hospital Gent, Belgium.
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Verstraete
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Martens
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Smeets
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vandekerckhove
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Meire
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Parizel
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Van de Velde
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Calliauw
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008588:Meningocele / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D013126:Spinal Nerve Roots / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed