European journal of radiology
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Tuberculosis remains an important problem in underdeveloped countries, especially in individuals under the age of 20 years. In developed countries, there was an increase of the disease due to several factors, especially the appearance of A. I. ⋯ The bacillus mycobacterium tuberculosis is characterized by a slow growth, propention for an oxygen rich environment and the absence of proteolytic enzymes. These characteristics are responsible for the imaging particularities of tuberculous osteomyelitis. The diagnosis can be confirmed by the bacteriologic and histological studies from samples removed by punction biopsy.
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To compare fast T1-weighted fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) and T1-weighted turbo spin-echo (TSE) imaging of the degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine. ⋯ Results in our study have shown that fast T1-weighted FLAIR imaging may be a valuable imaging modality in the armamentarium of lumbar spinal T1-weighted MR imaging, because the former technique has definite superior advantages such as CSF nulling, conspicuousness of the normal anatomic structures and changes in the lumbar spinal discogenic disease and image contrast and also almost equally acquisition times.