myelography

Indications

• spinal cord neoplasm
• spinal cord injury
• herniated disc

Disadvantages

• discomfort
• post-procedure headache

Clinical significance

• in some cases myelography will show pathology when MRI fails to do so, especially in patients with disk disease spinal cord neoplasm
• myelography also facilitates concurrent CSF analysis.

Procedure

• radiography of the spinal cord & nerve roots after injection of a contrast medium into the spinal subarachnoid space

Notes

• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has largely replaced myelography

More general terms

• radiography (roentgenography)

More specific terms

• CT-myelography
• myelography, posterior fossa
• myelography, spine