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radiography of spine (vertebral imaging)
Indications:
- spine disease
- scoliosis
- kyphosis
- spinal cord disease
- coccygodynia
- sciatica
- low back pain
- spinal stenosis
- lumbar spinal stenosis
- cervical spinal stenosis
- dystrophic calcification
- cervicobrachial syndrome
- cervicocranial syndrome
- neck pain
- post laminectomy syndrome
- disc disease
- degenerative disc disease
- lumbar disc disease
- Schmorl's node
- osteoarthritis
- spine trauma
- diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH)
- spondylosis
- spondyloarthropathy
- spondylitis
- enthesopathy
- evidence of osteopenia or osteoporosis
- women >= 70 years & men >= 80 years if T-score at the spine total hip or femoral neck is <= -1.0
- women age 65-69 & men age 75-79 if T-scor at the spine total hip or femoral neck is <= -1.5
- postmenopausal women age 50-64 years & men age 50-69 years with risk factors
- low-trauma fracture
- historic height loss of >= 1.5 inches (>= 4 cm)
- height loss of >= 0.8 inches (>= 2 cm)
- recent or ongoing long-term glucocorticoid therapy [1]
Specific
radiography of cervical spine
radiography of coccyx
radiography of lumbar spine
radiography of sacrum
radiography of thoracic spine
General
radiography (roentgenography)
References
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 17, 18
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2015, 2018
Component-of
radiography of spine & skull