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 ...

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 ...

A 72 year-old man presented with an unsteady gait. His neurological exam showed increased tone and hyperactive reflexes in the legs, with bilateral Babinski signs. Vibration sense was markedly ...

The study covered in this summary was published on MedRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.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 ...

For about one in six people considered healthy with no reports of back pain, lesions were visible on MRI in the lower spinal column and sacroiliac joint, researchers said -- a sign that ...

Ordinarily, you might not think too much about your spinal cord, since it’s protected by your spinal canal. But imagine what might happen if your spinal canal began to narrow around your 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 ...

Radiomics offers improved assessment of spinal cord pathology in MS, surpassing conventional MRI in precision and sensitivity. A study identified 12 significant radiomic features, with four ...

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 ...