Idiopathic spinal cord herniation: value of MR phase-contrast imaging.
We report two patients with an idiopathic transdural spinal cord herniation at the thoracic level. Phase-contrast MR imaging was helpful in showing an absence of CSF flow ventral to the herniated cord and a normal CSF flow pattern dorsal to the cord, which excluded a compressive posterior arachnoid cyst.
Brugières
P
P
Department of Neuroradiology, Henri Mondor Hospital, Créteil, France.
Malapert
D
D
Adle-Biassette
H
H
Fuerxer
F
F
Djindjian
M
M
Gaston
A
A
D000368:Aged; D018437:Brown-Sequard Syndrome / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006547:Hernia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000473:pathology; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology