With anterior cervical discectomy fusion, the disc is removed and replaced with either a bone spacer or plastic implant to restore disc height and remove pressure on pinched nerves or spinal cord ...

MRI scans can determine the size of a tumor and see whether the cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes or other areas of the pelvis. MRI scans have a 95% accuracy rate for stage 1B and higher.

Spinal fusion is a surgical procedure in which two or more vertebrae are permanently joined into one solid bone with no space between them. Vertebrae are the small, interlocking bones of the spine.

MRI technique: Both patients underwent MRI examinations of the spinal cord on a 0.5-T system with a surface coil and the following protocol: Tl-weighted spin-echo (SE) sagittal scan, T2*-weighted ...

After lumbosacral spine MRI, the researchers found that 44.5% of patients were seen by an orthopedic surgeon or neurosurgeon, and 6.5% ultimately underwent spine surgery during the subsequent ...