title: [Diagnosis of diseases of the spinal cord and the vertebral column].
abstract: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) nowadays plays a predominant role in the diagnosis and evaluation of spinal canal pathologies and has reduced the other exploratory methods, including computerized tomography (CT) and myelography, to an ancillary role. These pathologies are divided into three groups: those where MRI is the only imaging method (syringomyelia, tumours in the spinal canal, phakomatoses, external pachymeningitis, spinal cord injuries, myelitis); those where MRI is the initial method and is completed by other examinations (vascular malformations, dysraphism, myelopathies due to cervical osteoarthritis) and those where MRI still play a lesser role than CT (degenerative lesions of the lumbar column).
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Halimi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sigal
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Doyon
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: David
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013124:Spinal Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D013131:Spine / Q000002:abnormalities; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Diagnostic des affections de la moelle et du rachis.