ORLANDO, Fla. — As asymptomatic individuals aged, their rate of cervical spine abnormalities increased, according study results presented at the Cervical Spine Research Society Annual Meeting, here.

MRI identified missed cervical spine injuries in 17% of patients with trauma who had negative CT results, prompting treatment changes in 4% of them. MRI identified missed injuries in 17% of patients ...

The study covered in this summary was published on MedRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. This study lends support to the theory that Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) affects certain ...

Doctors often use MRI scans as an important step in determining the stage of cervical cancer. Knowing the stage can help them identify whether someone is a good candidate for surgery or if a different ...

Cervical myelopathy and cervical radiculopathy are neurologic conditions. They both originate in the neck and cause a loss of function. Cervical myelopathy is caused by compression of the spinal cord ...

Cervical stenosis is the narrowing of the vertebral canal in the neck. It is a common cause of neck pain and is more common in elderly patients. Up to 26% percent of people over the age of 64 may have ...

MRI The majority of interventional spine physicians reported using magnetic resonance imaging ahead of lumbar epidural steroid injections to correlate with the physical examination. The majority of ...