This paper reports on the respective diagnostic values of myelography with water-soluble contrast media and diskography in a study of 100 patients examined between 1979 and 1981 and operated on because of cervical disk disease. The results of the study led to a change of the diagnostic procedures formerly applied in radicular syndromes (i.e., diskography, and then perhaps myelography) and in ce...

This is a preliminary report of the first clinical trials using iohexol as a contrast agent in lumbar myelography. The study was noncomparative and involved 82 adult patients in four centers. Iohexol doses of 10-15 ml (180 mg I/ml) were administered and clinical and laboratory tests were performed before and at intervals during 48 hr after myelography. Side effects were noted in 29 (35%) of 82 ...

With the advent of the relatively safe water-soluble contrast medium metrizamide, cervical myelography followed by metrizamide computed tomography (CT) can be performed easily. Sixteen patients with cervical disk protrusions (eight central and eight posterolateral) were studied by both procedures to evaluate the diagnostic value of each. In 75% of the posterolateral disk protrusions, myelograph...

INTRODUCTION It is well-known that many patients will have adverse reactions such as headache and nausea after undergoing myelography, but we have often seen cases where symptoms such as lower back pain and leg pain were alleviated following myelography. To the best of our knowledge, such clinical cases of post-myelographic alleviation have not been reported. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of ...

Primary intradural teratomas are very rare tumors, only 20 cases have been reported [1-16]. Intraspinal teratomas are most often located in the dorsal aspect of the cervical or lower thoracic-upper lumbar regions. We report a case of an upper thoracic, ventrally located intraspinal teratoma associated with multiple spinal anomalies. The patient was evaluated by conventional myelography, CT metr...

Three-dimensional (3D) rotational radiography, initially developed to visualize intracranial aneurysms, is applied to the cervical spine after conventional myelography. We call this process 3D rotational myelography. 3D reconstruction and then postprocessing allows imaging in multiple planes. Spinal or nerve root sheath alterations caused by bony or soft tissue can be visualized and differentia...

Extraforaminal lumbar disk herniation is unusual and often undetected by myelography. Four cases were detected by high-resolution computed tomography. They were verified by surgery in one, diskography in one, and by the clinical course in two cases. Metrizamide myelography in two of the three patients was normal. This suggests that CT can accurately detect the diagnostically troublesome extrafo...