title: Imaging of the spine and nerve roots.
abstract: Advances in imaging have greatly improved the ability to display spine anatomy and pathology. This article describes the imaging findings in degenerative, traumatic, infectious, and neoplastic disease. Anatomic information, however, must be tempered by an understanding of asymptomatic disease and interpreted in the context of the clinical syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Mayo Medical School, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. maus.timothy@mayo.edu
authors.forename: Timothy P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Maus
mesh_terms: D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005682:Gadolinium; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D016103:Spinal Fractures / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D013126:Spinal Nerve Roots / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D013130:Spinal Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D013131:Spine / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D013168:Spondylolisthesis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014399:Tuberculosis, Spinal / Q000175:diagnosis
chemical_list: D005682:Gadolinium