A 10-year-old girl with no significant past medical history presented to the ED for evaluation of 6 months of progressively worsening back pain. During the preceding month, she began experiencing ...

—This study reported clinical and radiographic findings in 91 patients from the SPACE cohort study followed over a 4-year period. Men were more likely to demonstrate radiographic progression of ...

BOSTON, MA — Most magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is safe to perform in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and pacemaker systems that aren't classified as MRI-conditional as ...

Syringomyelia (Syrinx): Sagittal MRI scans of the cervical and upper thoracic spine; (Left) T1-weighted; (Right) T2 weighted. Note the large central cystic cavity expanding the spinal cord extending ...

A 63-year-old man was referred for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of the chest following an abnormal echocardiogram. The patient had no physical signs or symptoms of disease. He was taking ...

Dr. Amrit Misra (Neurology): A 58-year-old woman was seen in the outpatient neurology clinic of this hospital in early autumn because of hypoesthesia, paresthesia, and weakness. The patient had been ...

The spine in the upper back and abdomen is known as the thoracic spine. It is one of the three major sections of the spinal column. The thoracic spine sits between the cervical spine in the neck and ...

MRI The majority of interventional spine physicians reported using magnetic resonance imaging ahead of lumbar epidural steroid injections to correlate with the physical examination. The majority of ...