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- Title
Lumbar Spinal Stenosis with Exacerbation of Back Pain with Extension: A Potential Contraindication for Supine MRI with Sedation.
- Authors
Kuramoto, Alan; Linda Chang; Graham, Jon; Holmes, Stephen
- Abstract
A 71-year-old male with lumbar spinal stenosis developed exacerbation of lower back pain and leg paresthesias while attempting to undergo a spinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan in the supine position. After undergoing sedation for the MRI, he developed an acute cauda equina syndrome that required surgical decompression. MRI may be contraindicated in the supine position for patients with spinal stenosis and back pain exacerbated by mild-to-moderate extension, since it may further compress the neural tissue.
- Subjects
SPINAL stenosis; MAGNETIC resonance imaging; BACKACHE; MEDICAL imaging systems; MEDICAL research
- Publication
Journal of Neuroimaging, 2011, Vol 21, Issue 1, p92
- ISSN
1051-2284
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1552-6569.2009.00382.x