title: Significance of thoracic disc herniation demonstrated by MR imaging.
abstract: The thoracic spines of a group of 48 oncology patients were examined with high field (1.5 T) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Sagittal T1-weighted sections were obtained in all patients. Even using this single sequence an unexpectedly high prevalence of thoracic disk herniation (14.5%) was demonstrated. Thoracic disk herniation shown by MR may not be related to the patients' symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey, U.K.
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Cherryman
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Husband
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology