2013
DOI: 10.1097/brs.0b013e3182672307
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Reliability of Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods in the Assessment of Spinal Canal Stenosis and Cord Compression in Cervical Myelopathy

Abstract: All 4 measurement techniques demonstrated a good to moderately high degree of intra- and interobserver reliability. Highest reliability was noted in the assessment of T2-weighted sequences and axial MRI. Our results show that the measurements of MCC, MSCC, and CR are sufficiently reliable and correlate well with clinical severity of cervical myelopathy.

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“…4 Correlation of SI with spinal cord compression There were researches suggesting that axial sections based on T2-weighted MRI parameters were more reliable in assessing the degree of cervical spinal cord compression than T1-weighted sequences, and TA was reliable and versatile in assessing spinal cord compression. 5 Consistent with consensus that most studies have reported, 8 data from our study support the fact that TA closely correlates with baseline JOA score and surgical outcome. Trying to correlate TA and GSI on MRI, one would expect TA to be larger in patients with lower GSI on MRI.…”
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confidence: 81%
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“…4 Correlation of SI with spinal cord compression There were researches suggesting that axial sections based on T2-weighted MRI parameters were more reliable in assessing the degree of cervical spinal cord compression than T1-weighted sequences, and TA was reliable and versatile in assessing spinal cord compression. 5 Consistent with consensus that most studies have reported, 8 data from our study support the fact that TA closely correlates with baseline JOA score and surgical outcome. Trying to correlate TA and GSI on MRI, one would expect TA to be larger in patients with lower GSI on MRI.…”
Section: Discusionsupporting
confidence: 81%
“…3,4,5,11,18 The current results showed no significant correlations between the preoperative GSI with baseline JOA and recovery rate. However, there was a tendency toward negative correlation.…”
Section: Predictors Of Surgical Outcomesmentioning
confidence: 59%
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“…Data from our study also support the fact that post-operative GSI Correlation of clinical outcomes with spinal cord compression There were researches suggest: axial sections based on T2-weighted MRI parameters were more reliable in assessing the degree of cervical spinal cord compression than T1-weighted sequences, and TA was reliable and versatile in assessing spinal cord compression. 19 Data from our study support the fact that there was no correlation of TA with pre-operative JOA or AMS score and surgical outcome, suggesting that the extent of spinal cord compression has less of a predictive value in evaluating patients' neurological status and prognosis in the patients with SCIWORET. This is in accordance with previous research of ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament patients with traumatic cervical SCI.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 70%
“…Thus, subjects in the former study were largely more severe, although still myelopathy‐free cases compared with this study, and this probably accounts for the partial discrepancy between the lists of independent predictors in the two studies and for why CSA and CR were disclosed as independent predictors for DCM development. These parameters have been shown to have high reliability in the assessment of cervical cord compression (Karpova et al., 2013; Kovalová, Bednařík, Keřkovský, Adamová, & Kadaňka, 2015). It is not surprising that adding completely asymptomatic subjects to our study group led to a lower proportion of NMDCCC individuals developing DCM in comparison with the former study (13.4% over 3 years and 7.3% during the first year in comparison with 22.6% over 48.4 months and 8.0 during the first year).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%