"Conjoined" nerve roots: a requirement for computed tomographic and myelographic correlation for diagnosis.
In a case of "conjoined" nerve roots with herniated nucleus pulposus, the computed tomographic findings were inconclusive, if not misleading. Myelography alone was also not definitive. Correlation of these two studies allowed a successful surgical approach.
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000294:innervation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009192:Myelography; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013126:Spinal Nerve Roots / Q000002:abnormalities*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed