Doctors can use MRI to examine a person’s lower spine, lumbar region, and surrounding tissues. MRI of the spine can show spinal alignment, lumbar disk herniation, inflammation, and more.

Knowing a patient's symptoms helps radiologists in lumbar spine MRI interpretation and diagnosis, according to a study published today in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North ...

The following is a summary of “Limited added value of systematic spinal cord MRI vs brain MRI alone to classify patients with ...

Background: Beside symptoms and clinical signs radiological findings are crucial in the diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). We investigate which quantitative radiological signs are ...

Dr. Jeff Lehmen, a spine surgeon at SSM St. Mary's Hospital, said this assumption could be a sign of lumbar disk herniation, ...

The pain was again located on the right side (paravertebral) and on palpation of the vertebra in the proximal lumbar spine. The patient was first referred for conventional radiography (figure 1) and 1 ...