title: Imaging of the lumbar spine neoplasms.
abstract: The most common lumbar spine tumors are metastatic disease, myeloma, and hemangioma. Primary osseous lesions of the lumbar spine are unusual. When encountered, they often exhibit characteristic imaging properties, aiding the radiologist to provide a short list of differential diagnoses. We provide a discussion of imaging appearance of lumbar spine neoplasms. Emphasis of this review is on osseous lesions. Few common neurogenic intradural, extraaxial lesions are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Section of Musculoskeletal Imaging, Department of Radiology, David Gef-fen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6952, USA. kmotamedi@mednet.ucla.edu
authors.forename: Kambiz
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Motamedi
authors.forename: Hakan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ilaslan
authors.forename: Leanne L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Seeger
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*