Search In this Thesis
   Search In this Thesis  
العنوان
Role of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Evaluation of post traumatic
Vertebral Column /
المؤلف
Fadol, NorAldaim Ahmed.
هيئة الاعداد
باحث / NorAldaim Ahmed Fadol
مشرف / Mostafa Mahmoud Gamal ElDin
مشرف / Ahmed Mohamed Osman
مناقش / Ahmed Mohamed Osman
تاريخ النشر
2018.
عدد الصفحات
124p. :
اللغة
الإنجليزية
الدرجة
ماجستير
التخصص
الأشعة والطب النووي والتصوير
تاريخ الإجازة
1/1/2018
مكان الإجازة
جامعة عين شمس - كلية الطب - الاشعة التشخصية
الفهرس
Only 14 pages are availabe for public view

from 124

from 124

Abstract

he spinal cord is part of the central nervous system and supplies the extremities, neck, and others through the spinal nerves. The spinal cord surrounded by cerebrospinal fluid and its lower limit reach the 1st/2nd lumbar vertebral body but in the infant, the level is more distally. The spinal cord runs caudally to from the conus medullaris then filum terminale which is attached to the sacral region. The spinal nerves exit through inter-vertebral foramina to innervate the different organs and tissues (Reith, 2016).
The spinal cord injuries are often divided into traumatic and non-traumatic injuries. The incidence of spinal cord injuries varies internationally. Through the developed countries, the incidence of traumatic spinal cord injuries is high. Reliable data from other countries are not available (Ahuja et al., 2017).
Vertebral trauma may lead to; fractures and/or dislocations and/or subluxations with various degrees of involvements of the ligaments, muscles, blood vessels, nerves, discs, others and even the spinal cord. The vertebral injuries can be stable or non-stable as regard to the degree of injuries affecting the ligaments and other columnar stabilizers (James et al., 2017).
Magnetic Resonance is one modality of the medical imaging and it does not produce radiation but it is a form of Magnetic energy. So it is a non-invasive procedure with no ionizing radiation hazard (Deichmann, 2016).
The Magnetic Resonance Imaging priority is due to its ability to: identify spinal abnormalities with a neurological defect, confirmatory tool in negative radiographs, determine the cervical spine stability and specified its needs, determine the hemorrhagic status of the injured spinal cord and others. According to American College of Radiology (ACR) appropriateness criteria is; MRI of spine combined with computed tomography (CT) scan, is appropriate in the setting of acute spinal trauma (Kumar and Hayash, 2016).
So the imaging plays a major role in the diagnosis of spinal trauma effects and hence aid in the proper management. MRI is the modality of choice for evaluation of ligaments, other soft tissue structures, discs, spinal cord and occult osseous injuries, although the plain X-ray and computed tomography are the initial modalities for the diagnosis of the majority of cases (Kumar and Hayash, 2016).