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Is this a lumbar disc herniation or bulge?

Please help me out i have severe lumbar pain and i just had a mri of my lumbar spine. This is one picture that i thought look like a bulge or herniation. Please help me out i can get more pics if needed!!:(:(

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Originally Posted by BIGBTON (Post 733611)

Hi,

The resolution is not great and neither is the image quality. One can hallucinate a right paramidline osteophytic/disc bridge, possibly a broad disc fragment but way more information is needed (and better image quality too) to make that call. One would need to see several slices above and below the one you sent and correlate with several sagittal slices with both T1 and T2 studies to compare.

What does your second sentence mean in english. Thanks

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Originally Posted by BIGBTON (Post 733676)

What does your second sentence mean in english. Thanks

Need more images of better quality, otherwise it's like those funny ink blots a shrink gives their patients for interpretation