Surgical Decompression of Traumatic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Pilot Study Comparing Real-Time Intraoperative Ultrasound After Laminectomy With Postoperative MRI and CT Myelography.
Timothy ChryssikosJesse A StokumAbdul-Kareem AhmedChixiang ChenAaron WessellGregory CannarsaNicholas CaffesJeffrey OliverJoshua OlexaPhelan SheaMohamed LabibGraeme WoodworthAlexander KsendzovskyUttam BodanapallyKenneth CrandallCharles SansurGary SchwartzbauerBizhan AarabiPublished in: Neurosurgery (2022)
Patients with severe clinical injury and large IMLL were more likely to have inadequate decompression on postoperative MRI/CT myelography. IOUS can serve as a supplement to postoperative MRI/CT myelography for the assessment of spinal cord decompression. However, further investigation, additional surgeon experience, and anticipation of prolonged swelling after surgery are required.
Keyphrases
- contrast enhanced
- spinal cord injury
- magnetic resonance imaging
- spinal cord
- patients undergoing
- computed tomography
- magnetic resonance
- diffusion weighted imaging
- dual energy
- minimally invasive
- image quality
- neuropathic pain
- early onset
- robot assisted
- ultrasound guided
- pet ct
- clinical evaluation
- contrast enhanced ultrasound