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After preceding lumbar intervertebral disk operations, 88 Dimer-X myelographies were carried out. The examinations were performed with the patients in a lying position; if required, function pictures were taken in a sitting or standing position. Only in three cases the X-ray findings were unconspicuous. The findings included 12 prolapses at other levels, 6 prolapses, 5 massive scars, one pronounced osteophytosis, two cases of serious reticulitis, two meningoceles and one neurinoma outside the field of operation. The dorsal or lateral narrowing of the contrast band typical of prolapses found in the first dimer-X myelogram were only produced by scars in the renewed operation. The authors warn against pantopaque myelography for lumbar intervertebral disk diagnosis because of proven arachnoidal adhesions. The necessity of surgical procedures avoiding as far as possible tissue damage leaving scars and adhesions is stressed.
R Besel, and
H Assmann, and
J Reichel
July 1981,
Beitrage zur Orthopadie und Traumatologie,
R Besel, and
H Assmann, and
J Reichel
December 1974,
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde,
R Besel, and
H Assmann, and
J Reichel
July 1981,
Beitrage zur Orthopadie und Traumatologie,
R Besel, and
H Assmann, and
J Reichel
January 1977,
Zentralblatt fur Neurochirurgie,
R Besel, and
H Assmann, and
J Reichel
January 1973,
Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Rontgenstrahlen und der Nuklearmedizin,
R Besel, and
H Assmann, and
J Reichel
January 1974,
Ceskoslovenska radiologie,
R Besel, and
H Assmann, and
J Reichel
August 1975,
Neuroradiology,
R Besel, and
H Assmann, and
J Reichel
December 1973,
South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde,
R Besel, and
H Assmann, and
J Reichel
September 1973,
Journal of neurosurgery,
R Besel, and
H Assmann, and
J Reichel
May 1976,
Archiv fur orthopadische und Unfall-Chirurgie,
