Results published in JAMA Surgery showed use of cervical spine imaging for pediatric patients with blunt trauma has increased despite wide variability in clinical evaluation, which could lead to ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a valuable technique for evaluating the cervical spine because it allows the physician to directly visualize the spinal cord and surrounding soft tissue.

A 20-year-old man who inhaled over 50 balloons of laughing gas three or four times a week has been hospitalized with numbness ...

Sagittal (A) and axial (B) GE T2*-weighted MR images of cervical spine. Patchy area of increased signal intensity within the dorsal columns at C3-Tl level.

A way of imaging the spinal cord at the neck and where it joins the brain, as well as the bony spine and surrounding tissues. There are no X-rays, and therefore no danger of irradiation. It uses a ...

(HealthDay News) – Almost half of patients whose primary care physicians recommend a lumbosacral or cervical spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan go on to receive a surgical consultation ...

Alternative Names: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Spinal MRI MR of the Spinal cord / column or neck Nuclear Magnetic Resonance What is it? A way of imaging the spinal cord at the neck and where it joins ...