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Old 11-13-2006, 12:45 PM
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Below is the MRI report in its Entirety.

There is some loss of normal high signal intensity on the T2-weighted images, involving the intervertabral disks at the T5-T6 through T12-L1 intervertebral disk space levels compatible with desiccation. There is also some loss of height of the majority of these intervertebral disks. Vertebral body osteophytosis is noted at multiple levels, most notably at the T10-T11, T11-T12 and T12-L1 levels. There are minimal bulging disks at the T3-T4 and T4-T5 intervertebral disk space levels. No focal herniated disk, significant neural foraminal narrowing or significant spinal stenosis is seen at these levels. At T6-T7 there is a small central herniated disk with mass effect upon the ventral aspect of the sac. On axial images there is suggestion that this contacts the ventral surface of the spinal cord, but without evidence for significant compression of the spinal cord and no significant decrease in the AP dimension of the spinal canal. At T7-T8, T8-T9 and T9-T10 there are minimal posterior diffuse bulging disks and accompanying vertebral body osteophytic bony ridges leading to minimal mass effect upon the ventral aspect of the sac, but no focal herniated disk, significant neural foraminal narrowing or significant spinal stenosis is seen at these levels. At T10-T11 there is mild posterior diffuse bulging disk and accompanying vertebral body osteophytic bony ridges, leading to some mild asymmetric mass effect upon the ventral aspect of the sac, greatest in a left paracentral location. No significant spinal cord impingement is seen at this level. No significant spinal stenosis or neural foraminal narrowing is seen at this level. At T10-T11 there is a relatively mild posterior diffuse bulging disk and accompanying vertebral body osteophytes. Additionally, there is cephalad migration of a pedunculated focus of signal abnormality in the ventral aspect of the spinal canal, posterior to the superior half to the T11 vertebral body, at the midline. This measures up to 5mm in greatest anterior-posterior dimension, 6mm in greatest transverse dimension. and 11mm in greatest cephalocaudad dimension. Although suspicious for a small caudally migrated disk fragment, this does not appear to cause any impingement upon the spinal cord of any nerve roots. At T12-L1 there is posterior diffuse bulging disk with accompanying vertebral body osteopyutes leading to mass effect upon the ventral aspect of the sac, asymmetrically greater in a left paracentral location. No spinal cord impingement, significant spinal stenosis, or neural foraminal narrowing is seen at this level. There is some mild wedging of the T11 and T12 vertebral bodies which may be physiologic in nature and due to old trauma. There are areas of increased signal intensity and T1 and T2- weighted images, involving the inferior endplate of the T11, the inferior endplate of T12, and the superior endplate of the L1 vertebral bodies, most compatible with diskogenic reactive marrow change. A small focus of high signal on T1 and T2-weighted images is seen in the posterior-superior aspect of the T11 vertebral body, to the right of midline, most compatible with a small focus of fatty marrow change or hemangioma. The thoracic spinal cord demonstrates normal size and signal intensity.

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