caa a22 4500 465733972 CHVBK 20180323111749.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00439383 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00439383 New aspects of lumbardisc disease [Elektronische Daten] MR imaging and histological findings [G.-P. Lenz, J. Assheuer, W. Lenz, K.-W. Gottschlich] Summary: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and plain X-ray and CT studies were performed in patients with a history of lumbar back pain due to spinal disc disease. Spin-echo pulse sequences (SE), phase-contrast techniques (partial saturation sequences with delayed read-out, PS), and fat-suppressing inversion recovery sequences (STIR) were employed. In 74 of 325 patients, PS and STIR images displayed vertebral marrow changes adjacent to the end-plates of the affected segments. Bacterial infection, however, could be excluded. In six patients histological diagnosis showed substitution of hematopoietic marrow by fatty tissue, cartilaginous particles, degeneration of fat cells, and an increase in extracellular fluid with different components. The etiology is still unclear, but a correlation with lumbar disc disease is demonstrated. These vertebral marrow changes were best displayed with STIR and phase-contrast MR sequences, both providing contrast changes superior to T2-weighted Springer-Verlag, 1990 Lenz G.-P Orthopädische Klinik, Rotdornallee 64, D-2820, Bremen-Lesum, FRG aut Assheuer J. Institute of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Köln-Mülheim aut Lenz W. Institute of Pathology, Venusberg, University of Bonn, Bonn aut Gottschlich K.-W Picker International GmbH, Hofheim-Wallau, Federal Republic of Germany aut Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery Springer-Verlag 109/2(1990-02-01), 75-82 0936-8051 109:2<75 1990 109 402 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00439383 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00439383 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lenz G.-P Orthopädische Klinik, Rotdornallee 64, D-2820, Bremen-Lesum, FRG aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Assheuer J. Institute of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Köln-Mülheim aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lenz W. Institute of Pathology, Venusberg, University of Bonn, Bonn aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gottschlich K.-W Picker International GmbH, Hofheim-Wallau, Federal Republic of Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery Springer-Verlag 109/2(1990-02-01), 75-82 0936-8051 109:2<75 1990 109 402 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer