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I have been suffering from severe neck pain, headaches and head feeling too heavy for my neck for a couple of months. I tried everything from physical therapy, nerve blocks. Currently on oral steroids. My results came back just now and my doctor is on vacation. Can somebody help me read these results?
NDICATION: Radicular pain headache neck stiffness
COMPARISON: None
TECHNIQUE: MRI CERVICAL SPINE WO CONTRAST SAG T1, SAG T2, AX FFE, AX T2
REPORT: Vertebral body alignment and height minimal retrolisthesis of
C5 on C6.
Disc space decreased signal and height most severe at C5-C6 C6-C7 levels.
Marrow normal. Posterior fossa normal. Cord normal. Congenital stenosis
extending from the C3 through the C6 level.
Axial images.
C2-C3: Minimal facet arthropathy uncinate hypertrophy mild left neural
foraminal
narrowing.
C3-C4: Congenital stenosis disc bulge effacement thecal sac facet arthropathy
uncinate hypertrophy mild/moderate bilateral neural foraminal narrowing.
C4-C5: Congenital stenosis disc bulge effacing anterior posterior thecal sac
facet arthropathy mild uncinate hypertrophy mild bilateral neural foraminal
narrowing.
C5-C6: Posterior osteophyte disc complex with effacement thecal sac
superimposed
congenital stenosis and central disc protrusion minimally flattens
cord. Facet
arthropathy uncinate hypertrophy moderate right mild to moderate left neural
foraminal narrowing.
C6-C7: Congenital stenosis central disc protrusion effacing thecal sac
minimally
flattens cord facet arthropathy uncinate hypertrophy mild/moderate bilateral
neural foraminal narrowing.
C7-T1: Negative
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Impression:
IMPRESSION:
1. Congenital stenosis with superimposed multilevel facet arthropathy
ligamentum flavum hypertrophy and or disc bulge/protrusion with osteophytic
ridging with most severe findings C3-C4 effacement thecal sac mild to moderate
bilateral neural foraminal narrowing, C4-C5 effacement thecal sac mild
bilateral
neural foraminal narrowing, C5-C6 effacing thecal sac mild flattening of cord
moderate right mild to moderate left neural foraminal narrowing, C6-C7
effacement thecal sac mild flattening of cord mild to moderate
bilateral neural
foraminal narrowing.
I have been suffering from severe neck pain, headaches and head feeling too heavy for my neck for a couple of months. I tried everything from physical therapy, nerve blocks. Currently on oral steroids. My results came back just now and my doctor is on vacation. Can somebody help me read these results?
NDICATION: Radicular pain headache neck stiffness
COMPARISON: None
TECHNIQUE: MRI CERVICAL SPINE WO CONTRAST SAG T1, SAG T2, AX FFE, AX T2
REPORT: Vertebral body alignment and height minimal retrolisthesis of
C5 on C6.
Disc space decreased signal and height most severe at C5-C6 C6-C7 levels.
Marrow normal. Posterior fossa normal. Cord normal. Congenital stenosis
extending from the C3 through the C6 level.
Axial images.
C2-C3: Minimal facet arthropathy uncinate hypertrophy mild left neural
foraminal
narrowing.
C3-C4: Congenital stenosis disc bulge effacement thecal sac facet arthropathy
uncinate hypertrophy mild/moderate bilateral neural foraminal narrowing.
C4-C5: Congenital stenosis disc bulge effacing anterior posterior thecal sac
facet arthropathy mild uncinate hypertrophy mild bilateral neural foraminal
narrowing.
C5-C6: Posterior osteophyte disc complex with effacement thecal sac
superimposed
congenital stenosis and central disc protrusion minimally flattens
cord. Facet
arthropathy uncinate hypertrophy moderate right mild to moderate left neural
foraminal narrowing.
C6-C7: Congenital stenosis central disc protrusion effacing thecal sac
minimally
flattens cord facet arthropathy uncinate hypertrophy mild/moderate bilateral
neural foraminal narrowing.
C7-T1: Negative
________________________________
Impression:
IMPRESSION:
1. Congenital stenosis with superimposed multilevel facet arthropathy
ligamentum flavum hypertrophy and or disc bulge/protrusion with osteophytic
ridging with most severe findings C3-C4 effacement thecal sac mild to moderate
bilateral neural foraminal narrowing, C4-C5 effacement thecal sac mild
bilateral
neural foraminal narrowing, C5-C6 effacing thecal sac mild flattening of cord
moderate right mild to moderate left neural foraminal narrowing, C6-C7
effacement thecal sac mild flattening of cord mild to moderate
bilateral neural
foraminal narrowing.
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