MRI artifacts following anterior cervical diskectomy

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-29

  Salazar, Jose L ^a,b   Misra, Mukesh ^a   Donna Bloom, R N ^b   Dobben, Glen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ADVOCATE ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Cervical diskectomy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Postoperative

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; NECK PAIN; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030975859     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(96)00418-1     Document Type: Article

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