TITLE:
Full Length Spine CT and MRI
AUTHORS:
Tae-Keun Ahn, Stephane Bourret, Wendy Thompson, Cecile Roscop, Thibault Cloché, Jean-Charles Le Huec
KEYWORDS:
Full Length Spine CT, Full Length Spine MRI, Trauma, Deformity, Infection, Axial Spondyloarthropathy, Metastasis
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Clinical Medicine,
Vol.11 No.5,
May
15,
2020
ABSTRACT: Spine is a complex and long structure in the human body. Visualization of the spine is essential to treat and manage spine disease and commonly requires further imaging modalities such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In most clinical fields, spine CT and MRI examinations are focused on the region of interest. However, spine is composed of cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum and coccyx and sometimes demands examination of entire structure as well as regional spine depending on disease, patient’s state and physician’s decision. This review considers the available literature to describe when and how full length spine evaluation by CT and MRI is applied according to each spinal disease such as spinal trauma, deformity, infection, axial spondyloarthropathy and metastatic tumor.