1. Pneumorachis : illustration de trois étiologies rares
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I. Hasni Bouraoui, I. Ksira, H. Jemni, J. Mazhoud, N. Arifa, H Boughammoura, S Hmila, W Gamoun, K. Mrad Dali, and K. Tlili Graies
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Radiological and Ultrasound Technology ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Perforation (oil well) ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,Lumbar vertebrae ,medicine.disease ,Low back pain ,Surgery ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,medicine ,Carcinoma ,Etiology ,Synovial cyst ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Spinal canal ,Radiology ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
The presence of gas in the spinal canal or pneumorachis is a rare imaging finding, typically incidental. Pneumorachis may be due to several degenerative, traumatic, infectious, tumoral or iatrogenic etiologies. We report three cases of pneumorachis in patients with lumbar back pain. A case occurred in a patient with advanced degenerative disk disease. Another was in a patient with posterior facet synovial cyst. The last was in a patient with locally advanced rectal carcinoma complicated by perforation. Pneumorachis was detected on MRI in two cases and on CT in all three cases.
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- 2010
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