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[Scintigraphic pattern in a case of Tarlov cyst].
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Revista espanola de medicina nuclear [Rev Esp Med Nucl] 2000 Feb; Vol. 19 (1), pp. 25-8. - Publication Year :
- 2000
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Abstract
- We report the case of a 40-year-old man remitted to our department with a history of lower back pain and sciatica with no history of trauma. The laboratory analyses showed normal values whereas plain radiographs showed a sacrum rarefaction area. A 99mTc-MDP bone scintigraphy was performed to evaluate the lumbosacral area. Planar images did not show any abnormality. SPECT images revealed photopenic abnormality in the second sacral vertebral right hemibody, with no peripherally increased radiotracer accumulation. Subsequent MRI and CT myelography demonstrated the nature of the photopenic area as secondary to vertebral erosion by sacral perineurial cyst (Tarlov cyst).
Details
- Language :
- Spanish; Castilian
- ISSN :
- 0212-6982
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Revista espanola de medicina nuclear
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10758434
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0212-6982(00)71865-9