[Ultra-low magnetic resonance tomography of thoracic and lumbar spine osteochondrosis].

The paper presents the results of tomographic studies of 119 patients with clinical manifestations of radiculopathy or radiculomyelopathy. MR tomography was performed on the Magnaview unit ("Instrumentarium", Finland) at field intensity 0.04 T. The analysis of T1- and T2-weighted sagittal tomograms providing MRT picture of osteochondrosis and various hernias shows that osteochondrosis involves several disks simultaneously while their bulging towards the vertebral canal is multiple. The severity of the hernia in some cases does not closely agree with degeneration degree or the decline of the vertebral disk height. However there is a close correlation between the size and direction of the hernia on the one hand and the clinical manifestations on the other hand.