Kulkarni M V, Bondurant F J, Rose S L, Narayana P A
Department of Radiology, Houston Northwest Medical Center, TX 77090.
Radiographics. 1988 Nov;8(6):1059-82. doi: 10.1148/radiographics.8.6.3205929.
Fifty patients with spinal injury above L2 were studied with MRI; forty-two had initial and followup studies permitting correlation of MRI abnormalities with neurologic improvement. Two discrete patterns of MRI abnormality were identified, presumably representing cord hemorrhage and edema respectively. A third pattern appeared to represent a mixed type of injury. The correlation between the MRI patterns of cord injury and neurologic recovery was excellent. The ability of MRI to demonstrate and characterize acute cord injury appears to exceed that of other diagnostic techniques.
对50例腰2以上脊髓损伤患者进行了磁共振成像（MRI）研究；其中42例患者进行了初始及随访检查，从而能够将MRI异常情况与神经功能改善情况进行关联分析。识别出了两种不同的MRI异常模式，推测分别代表脊髓出血和水肿。第三种模式似乎代表混合型损伤。脊髓损伤的MRI模式与神经功能恢复之间的相关性极佳。MRI显示和鉴别急性脊髓损伤的能力似乎超过了其他诊断技术。
