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myelography
Indications:
- spinal cord neoplasm
- spinal cord injury
- herniated disc
Procedure:
- radiography of the spinal cord & nerve roots after injection of a contrast medium into the spinal subarachnoid space
Clinical significance:
- in some cases myelography will show pathology when MRI fails to do so, especially in patients with disk disease spinal cord neoplasm
- myelography also facilitates concurrent CSF analysis.
Disadvantages:
1) discomfort
2) post-procedure headache
Notes:
- magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has largely replaced myelography
Specific
CT-myelography
myelography, posterior fossa
myelography, spine
General
radiography (roentgenography)
References
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 11, American
College of Physicians, Philadelphia 1998
- Geriatrics Review Syllabus, American Geriatrics Society,
5th edition, 2002-2004
- American Society of Radialogic Technologists: Myelography
https://www.asrt.org/content/ThePublic/AboutRadiologicProcedures/Myelography.aspx
- Wikipedia: Myelography