[The significance of radiculography and resonance tomography in the diagnosis and treatment of lumbar discopathy].

The subject of the study was an assessment of the usefulness of radiculography and resonance tomography in the diagnosis of lumbar discopathy. The study was carried out in 100 cases of lumbar discopathy treated at the Department of Spondyloneurosurgery Institute of Rheumatology in Warsaw. Both radiculography and resonance tomography were found to be of equal diagnostic value in the verification of the clinical symptoms of this discopathy. The detection rate of lumbar discopathy by both methods was much higher than based on clinical symptomatology alone. The use of both methods was not equivalent diagnostically (often they replace one another, but often also they supplement one another), and for that reason combined examination by both methods is frequently of high importance in practice, when the line of management is to be set down.