title: The cervical spine: radiologist's perspective.
abstract: This article provides an essential curriculum in cervical spine radiology. It discusses the uses of plain radiographs, MR imaging, computed tomography (CT), and CT myelography, in addition to the methodologies of discography, epidural injections under visualization, and facet and nerve root injections. It explains how radiographic images of the cervical spine can differentiate tumors, inflammation, recent or prior trauma, and the range of discal, arthritic, neural, and vascular cervical pathologies and, just as importantly, when they cannot.
authors.affiliation: Tower Imaging Medical Group, Inc., 8750 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 100, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, USA. vemink@earthlink.net
authors.forename: Jerrold H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Mink
authors.forename: Rachael E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.forename: Andrew L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Deutsch
mesh_terms: D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000293:injuries* / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D019547:Neck Pain / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015641:Radiography, Interventional; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013124:Spinal Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed