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Cauda equina syndrome
30M 60F 70M
T2
30M
T2 T1 T1FS con
T1 T1FS con
60F
T2 T1 T1FS con
T1 T1FS con
70M
T2 T1 T1FS con
T1 T1FS con
35M PBA T2 T2 T1
• 72 year old male • Non mechanical back pain • Known prostate Ca:
– Raised PSA (20) – Nodule on DRE – +ve on biopsy
• Staging investigations
What is the most appropriate imaging modality for the spine?
1. Plain film 2. CT 3. Scintigraphy (bone scan) 4. MRI
64F Breast Ca
T2 T1 T1FS con
76M CRC
T2
54M RCC
• 62 year old male • Severe low back pain of rapid onset • Febrile and unwell • 4 weeks ago underwent abdominal surgery for
perforated diverticulitis
What is the most likely diagnosis?
1. Acute disc herniation 2. Discitis/ osteomyelitis 3. Crush fracture secondary to osteoporosis 4. Metastatic cancer
What is the most appropriate imaging modality?
1. Plain film 2. CT 3. Scintigraphy (bone scan) 4. MRI
T2 T1 T1FS con
T2 T1FS con
• 37 year old male • Low back and buttock pain, increasing over
several months • Worse in morning; reduced by activity
What is the most likely diagnosis?
1. Acute disc herniation 2. Facet joint degeneration 3. Inflammatory spondyloarthropathy 4. Metastatic cancer
Seronegative spondyloarthropathies (SpA)
• European Spondyloarthropathy Study Group (ESSG) Arthritis Rheum 1991;34:1218-1227 – Ankylosing spondylitis – Reactive arthritis – Arthritis spondylitis with inflammatory bowel disease – Arthritis spondylitis with psoriasis – Undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy (uSpA)
• Clinical features + HLA-B27 • Rheumatoid factor –ve = seronegative
ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS
• Chronic inflammatory disease, primarily affecting spine and sacroiliac joints
• Osteitis: – Bone erosions; sclerosis; ankylosis
• Peripheral arthritis: – Asymmetrical; lower limb
• Enthesopathy: – Plantar fasciitis – Distal Achilles tendonosis and paratendonitis
DIAGNOSIS OF AS
• Radiographic grading of sacroiliitis 0-4 Kellegren Atlas of Standard Radiographs in Arthritis, Oxford
1963 • Grade 0 = normal • Grade 1 = suspicious (mild blurring) • Grade 2 = minimal sclerosis, some erosions • Grade 3 = severe erosions, joint widening, partial
ankylosis • Grade 4 = complete ankylosis
Radiographic grading of AS • Grade 0 • Grade 1 • Grade 2 • Grade 3 • Grade 4
Radiographic grading of AS • Grade 0 • Grade 1 • Grade 2 • Grade 3 • Grade 4
Radiographic grading of AS • Grade 0 • Grade 1 • Grade 2 • Grade 3 • Grade 4
Radiographic grading of AS • Grade 0 • Grade 1 • Grade 2 • Grade 3 • Grade 4
Radiographic grading of AS • Grade 0 • Grade 1 • Grade 2 • Grade 3 • Grade 4
Radiographic grading of AS • Grade 0 • Grade 1 • Grade 2 • Grade 3 • Grade 4
Dx of AS: Modified New York criteria
• Arthritis Rheum 1984;27:361-368 • Clinical:
1. LBP & stiffness > 3/12 improved by exercise 2. ↓ motion lumbar spine sagittal and frontal 3. ↓ chest expansion for age & sex
• Radiological: – Grade ≥ 2 bilateral – Grade 3-4 unilateral
• AS = 2/3 clinical + radiological
Problems with radiographic grading
• May take years for radiographic changes to develop – Early cases excluded from research and treatment
• Most radiographic signs in AS reflect healing processes, not disease activity – cf erosions in RA
• Most radiographic signs in AS irreversible • Radiographs do not detect inflammation
T2FS
T1 STIR
STIR
Response to DMARD eg infliximab
– Braun Ann Rheum Dis 2002;61:iii51-iii60
• 45 year old male • 2 weeks post discectomy L4/5 • Recurrent bilateral leg pain
What is the most appropriate imaging modality?
1. Plain film 2. CT 3. Scintigraphy (bone scan) 4. MRI
T2 T1
T2
T1FS con
T2
T1FS con
• Dx: recurrent disc: – Central herniation + huge sequestration virtually filling
the spinal canal • Note peripheral enhancement pattern • DD: fibrosis
• 51 year old female • Left sciatica
– Intermittent pain and paraesthesia
T2 T1 T1FS con
What is the most likely diagnosis?
1. Massive disc sequestration 2. Discitis complicated by abscess 3. Synovial cyst 4. Benign peripheral nerve sheath tumour
T2 T1 T1FS con
• Dx: benign peripheral nerve sheath tumour (BPNST) of left L3 nerve root – Many clinicians use the term ‘neuroma’
• Pathologically imprecise term – Most are benign
• Schwannoma or neurofibroma • Difficult (impossible) to differentiate on imaging
– BPNST is probably the best terminology – Associated with NF1 and ‘NF2’ (MISME)
• 66 year old female • Severe lower back pain on and off for years • More recent (2 months) development of right
sciatica
What is the most likely diagnosis?
1. Massive disc sequestration 2. Discitis complicated by abscess 3. Synovial cyst 4. Benign peripheral nerve sheath tumour
L4/5
• Severe OA of facet (zygoapophyseal) joints • Round heterogeneous lesion projecting into right
spinal canal • Note: close relationship to facet joint • Dx: synovial cyst
Synovial cyst lumbar facet joint
• Fairly common • Key is relationship to degenerate facet joint • Density may vary from pure cyst to varying levels of
calcification and heterogeneity • Usually present clinically with intractable sciatica • May respond to aspiration and steroid injection, but
usually treated surgically
T2 T1
T2 T1
Image interpretation: spine
• Anatomy • Cross sectional techniques:
– CT – MRI
• Nomenclature of disc herniations and spinal stenosis
• A few cases