Spine MRI

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MRI scans	Posterior spinal anatomy	Skeletal spine	Vertebra, lumbar (low back)
Vertebra, thoracic (mid back)

Magnetic resonance imaging - spine; Nuclear magnetic resonance - spine; MRI of the spine; NMR - spine

Spine MRI may reveal disorders such as:

• Spinal cord compression
• Syringomyelia
• Cervical disk disorders
• Lumbar disk disorders
• Tumors of the spine
• Enlarged lymph nodes near the spine
• Degenerative lesions of the spinal cord
• Herniated disk

• Multiple sclerosis
• Myelomeningocele (children)

The sensitivity of MRI depends, in part, on the experience of the radiologist.

Review Date: 01/24/2007
Reviewed By: Stuart Bentley-Hibbert, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.