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Complete myelography with metrizamide.
Thorough myelography of the entire spinal cord including the foramen magnum region can be accomplished consistently and promptly after metrizamide injection via lumbar or lateral cervical puncture. When lumbar puncture is used the patient's torso is oblique, but the neck is prone and straight and the table is tilted 20 degrees head-down to allow direct cervical filling with contrast material. E...
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A 62-year-old man was admitted for right arm radicular pain and diplopia. Eight months earlier he had documented metastatic adenocarc inoma, primary site unknown, with pleural and skeletal involvement. On physical examinat ion, he was alert, well oriented, and afebrile. Pertin ent findings included a supple neck, a left sixth cran ial nerve palsy with questionable left retinal mass, and mild we...
متن کاملDiastematomyelia in children: metrizamide and CT metrizamide myelography.
Diastematomyelia is an uncommon dysraphic lesion of the spine which has been diagnosed more frequently since the advent of newer diagnostic methods. A series of 21 cases was examined using metrizamide myelography and computed tomographic metrizamide myelography (CTMM) over a 3-year period. These examinations, in addition to plain radiographs of the spine, have demonstrated certain features of d...
متن کاملTransient motor aphasia following metrizamide myelography.
Metrizamide, a water-soluble iodinated contrast agent for myelography, has been widely used in the United States for more than 4 years . Although acute generalized encephalopathy with confusion has been recog nized as a complication of metrizamide myelography, aphasia, with the connotation of focality that it entails, has seldom been reported [1, 2]. We describe two patients with a transient mo...
متن کاملPositioning of patients after metrizamide lumbar myelography.
This prospective study of 90 patients after lumbar metrizamide myelography indicates that the semiupright position at 45 degrees in bed or early ambulation reduces postprocedure vomiting but does not reduce the frequency of headache. Ambulatory patients have less frequent nausea than patients kept in bed.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Roentgenology
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0361-803X,1546-3141
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.129.3.481