You may not be able to have a cervical spine MRI if you have metal in your body or you’re pregnant. Your doctor may order a bone scan, CT scan, or additional X-rays instead.

Case Report Published: 09 January 2007 Ultra-early MRI showing no abnormality in a fall victim presenting with tetraparesis T Aoyama, K Hida, M Akino, S Yano, Y Iwasaki & H Saito Spinal Cord 45 ...

A positive scan might fast-track a patient to a surgeon. However, few cervical spine MRI scans in middle-aged or older people are actually normal, and the reports often contain disturbing descriptions ...

After cervical spine MRI, 44.0 percent were seen by an orthopedic surgeon or neurosurgeon, and none had surgery.

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 ...

Objective In this study, the prevalence of abnormalities in the cervical spine of asymptomatic professional rugby players using both static and dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in order to ...

An MRI finding of T2 hyperintensity in the cervical spinal cord of professional athletes can be used as evidence of cord trauma, but it may not correlate with prognostic values for return to play ...

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 ...