What Is a Spinal MRI? A spinal MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, uses powerful magnets, radio waves, and a computer to make clear, detailed pictures of your spine. The MRI may scan your whole ...

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. MRI is ...

An MRI of the lumbar spine shows the bones, disks, spinal cord, and the spaces between the vertebral bones where nerves pass through. The risks of a lumbar MRI scan Unlike an X-ray or CT scan, an ...

In contrast to the relatively brief period in which meningitis cases appeared, a steady stream of spinal and paraspinal infections continue to present long after the injections were administered.

One-fifth of participants showed sacroiliac joint erosions, and 14% had fat metaplasia. Erosions were seen in nearly 40% of those 40 and older; spinal BME was also present in 36% of this age group ...

For this prospective, multi-reader study, the investigators included a total of 240 Mass General patients who completed a symptom questionnaire prior to their lumbar spine MRI.

Each patient was given an 8-minute MRI scan and a lumbar puncture and, after 18 months, they were able to find out what the diagnosis was and whether it matched that of their initial scan.

Karla Flores was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor. A misplaced MRI found a second, nearly inoperable, ... This one was at the top of her spine, at the front of her spinal cord.