Bone changes associated to disc disease

The magnetic resonance has provided new opportunities of disk-vertebral pathological findings.  It is not considered important in asymptomatic patients, but it is a significant emergence in the vertebral degeneration of discal cause that, according to the intensity of the signs, it was classified by...

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Main Author: Jose Angel Martínez López
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas 2016-02-01
Series:Medisan
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Online Access:http://medisan.sld.cu/index.php/san/article/view/568
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Summary:The magnetic resonance has provided new opportunities of disk-vertebral pathological findings.  It is not considered important in asymptomatic patients, but it is a significant emergence in the vertebral degeneration of discal cause that, according to the intensity of the signs, it was classified by Modic as sequences T1 and T2. Although controversy exists as for the disc disease, the resonance is the only available test to correlate the imagenologic findings with the symptoms of the patient affected.
ISSN:1029-3019