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Normal magnetic resonance imaging and abnormal discography in lumbar disc disruption
T C Brightbill1, N Pile, R P Eichelberger
1Department of Radiology, Baptist Medical Center Montclair, Birmingham, Alabama.
Spine
|May 1, 1994
Abstract
Study Design:
This report describes a clinical series of seven patients who had surgically proven internal disc disruption, normal magnetic resonance imaging, and abnormal discograms morphologically.
Summary Of Background Data:
Numerous reports in the literature have described the utility of magnetic resonance imaging and discography in diagnosing degenerative disease within lumbar intervertebral discs.
Results:
Discography may be useful in patients with persistent symptoms despite a normal or equivocal magnetic resonance imaging study.