title: Idiopathic spinal cord herniation: value of MR phase-contrast imaging.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroradiology, Henri Mondor Hospital, Créteil, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brugières
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Malapert
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Adle-Biassette
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fuerxer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Djindjian
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gaston
mesh_terms: 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