Conventional metrizamide myelography (MM) and computed tomographic metrizamide myelography (CTMM) in scoliosis. A comparative study.
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 142 (1), 111-114
- https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.142.1.7053519
Abstract
A retrospective examination was performed to assess the accuracy of metrizamide myelography (MM) and computed tomographic metrizamide myelography (CTMM) in scoliosis. Of 81 consecutive scoliotic children studied by myelography, 30 had only MM while the remaining 51 had CTMM immediately afterward. CTMM added essential diagnostic information in 13 cases of dysraphism and 4 cases of idiopathic scoliosis; in the remaining cases, both methods gave the same information. In patients with severe scoliosis, dysraphism and scoliosis with localized neurological disturbances, CTMM should always be added to MM or be the only examination; in idiopathic scoliosis with vague neurological disturbances a survey of the entire spine is essential, preferably with MM.Keywords
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