Advances in imaging have greatly improved the ability to display spine anatomy and pathology. This article describes the imaging findings in degenerative, traumatic, infectious, and neoplastic disease. Anatomic information, however, must be tempered by an understanding of asymptomatic disease and interpreted in the context of the clinical syndrome.
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Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am. 2002 Aug 1;13(3):487-544, vi.
AbstractAdvances in imaging have greatly improved the ability to display spine anatomy and pathology. This article describes the imaging findings in degenerative, traumatic, infectious, and neoplastic disease. Anatomic information, however, must be tempered by an understanding of asymptomatic disease and interpreted in the context of the clinical syndrome.