Diagnostic Value of Spinal Computer Tomography in Patients with Intraspinal Metastases Causing Complete Block on Myelography
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- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Acta Radiologica
- Vol. 32 (1) , 1-2
- https://doi.org/10.3109/02841859109177495
Abstract
The value of post-myelographic spinal computer tomography (CT) was evaluated in cancer patients with spinal metastases causing complete myelographic block. in 22 out of 25 lumbar myelographies (88?) showing complete blockade, sufficient contrast medium had leaked proximally to allow determination of the cranial limit of the metastasis on the CT-scan. It is concluded that the post-myelographic spinal CT can replace a supplementary cervical myelography in the majority of patients with epidural metastasis, causing a complete myelographic block.Keywords
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