Correlation of 18F-FDG PET/CT uptake with severity of MRI findings and epidural steroid injection sites in patients with symptomatic degenerative disease of the lumbar spine: a retrospective study | Zendy

Michelle Lam | Zendy; Christopher J. Burke | Zendy; William R. Walter | Zendy

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Correlation of 18F-FDG PET/CT uptake with severity of MRI findings and epidural steroid injection sites in patients with symptomatic degenerative disease of the lumbar spine: a retrospective study

Author(s) -

Michelle Lam,

Christopher J. Burke,

William R. Walter

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

diagnostic and interventional radiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.754

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 1305-3612

pISSN - 1305-3825

DOI - 10.5152/dir.2021.20438

Subject(s) - medicine , facet joint , magnetic resonance imaging , lumbar , nuclear medicine , spinal stenosis , spinal canal , positron emission tomography , stenosis , spinal disease , radiology , epidural steroid injection , low back pain , spinal cord , pathology , alternative medicine , psychiatry

We aimed to retrospectively correlate 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) metabolic activity with lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings and epidural steroid injection sites in patients with symptomatic degenerative disease of the lumbar spine.

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