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MRI manifestations and differentiated diagnosis of postoperative spinal complications

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To analyze MR manifestations of postoperative spinal complications and investigate the value of MRI in the diagnosis and differentiated diagnosis, 114 cases of spinal postoperative complications were analyzed retrospectively and compared with the clinical data. The results showed that the main postoperative spinal complications included spinal stenosis (n=33, consisting of 21 cases of epidural fibrosis and 12 cases of epidural hematoma or epidural abscess), lack of spinal stability (n=43), infection (n=23, consisting of 7 cases of para-spinal soft-tissue infection, 5 cases of vertebral discitis, 4 cases of vertebral and appendix infection, 3 cases of epidural abscess, 2 cases of myelitis, 2 cases of spinal arachnoiditis), others (n=28, consisting of 12 cases of inner fixation failure, 9 cases of epidural hematoma, 7 cases of cerebrospinal fluid gusher). It is concluded that MRI can specifically display all kinds of postoperative spinal complications, and is of significant value in the diagnosis and differentiated diagnosis of postoperative spinal complications.

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  1. Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China

    Haitao Yang  (杨海涛), Tianyou Luo  (罗天友), Yu Ouyang  (欧阳羽) & Fajin Lv  (吕发金)

  2. Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China

    Renfa Wang  (王仁法), Liming Xia  (夏黎明) & Chengyuan Wang  (王承缘)

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Yang, H., Wang, R., Luo, T. et al. MRI manifestations and differentiated diagnosis of postoperative spinal complications. J. Huazhong Univ. Sci. Technol. [Med. Sci.] 29, 522–526 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11596-009-0426-4

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