Diagnostic imaging algorithm for cervical soft disc herniation.
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Diagnostic imaging algorithm for cervical soft disc herniation.
MR imaging with surface coils is currently the preferred method for the evaluation of cervical soft disc herniation. However, the differentiation between soft disc herniation and osteophytic spurs in the neural foraminal canal is not always obvious on a 0.5 Tesla unit. Therefore the specificity for neural foraminal canal pathology has been reported not to be very high. We evaluated MRI in selec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.57.6.724