We present the case of a 27-year-old man who had a soft-tissue lumbar spine mass causing back, abdominal, and groin pain. Imaging showed the lesion filling the right neural foramen, invading the anterior L2 vertebral body and both pedicles, and protruding into the central canal, causing compression of the thecal sac. The final pathologic diagnosis was a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, ...

A novel transosseous approach for percutaneous access of the lumbar subarachnoid space is described in a patient with advanced ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and instrumented spinal fusion who presented for myelography. Use of a coaxial threaded bone biopsy system to provide transosseous access to the thecal sac, imaging findings, and outcome are discussed. This technique provided access to an oth...

Cerebrospinal fluid-borne metastases were demonstrated by metrizamide myelography in 20 children with primary intracranial tumors, posterior fossa medulloblastomas being the most common. The lumbosacral region was affected most often, with nerve root thickening, nodularity, and irregularity of the thecal sac. Cord cloaking, nodularity, and meningeal disease were common in the cervical and thora...

We report a case of spinal stenosis with ossification of the thoracic ligamentum flavum in a 53-year-old man with achondroplasia. Neurological signs indicated flaccid paralysis below L1, and the patient was unable to walk. Ossification of the ligamentum flavum was observed at T4/5 and T9 to T12, compressing the thecal sac. Laminectomy of T9 to L1 was performed. At one-year follow-up, the patien...

Case Report: A 28-year-old man complained acute low-back pain three-day post-appendectomy. Computed tomography revealed thrombosis of both iliac veins and ascending lumbar vein in a patient with chronic occlusion of infra-renal inferior vein cava. Consequent lumbar and intraspinal epidural venous engorgements caused nerve root and thecal sac compression that simulated a spinal stenosis. Complet...

A 53-year-old woman with superficial siderosis underwent spinal MR imaging, which demonstrated a large cervicothoracic epidural fluid collection compatible with a CSF leak. Conventional and dynamic CT myelography failed to localize the dural tear because of rapid equilibration of myelographic contrast between the thecal sac and the extradural collection. The superior temporal resolution of digi...

Intradural epidermoid tumors occur more often in patients with a history of one or more lumbar punctures (1-4). It is hypothesized that they result from skin fragments introduced into the thecal sac during lumbar puncture and that they differ from the congenital heterotopic lesions. This report details the characteristic patient history , the water-soluble myelographic findings, and the MR appe...

Inferior vena cava (IVC) agenesis is a rare anomaly that is usually an incidental finding in radiologic work-up or it can rarely be symptomatic due to deep venous thrombosis of iliac veins. In this report, we present a case of IVC agenesis detected on lumbar spinal MR imaging scans by extensive epidural-paravertebral collateral vessels compressing the thecal sac and causing low back pain in a c...

A postlaminectomy pseudomeningocele is a spherical, fluid-filled space with fibrous capsule lying dorsal to the thecal canal in the laminectomy opening that occasionally develops after surgery. Eight cases were found in 400 symptomatic postlaminectomy patients undergoing computed tomographic examination. The contents are of cerebrospinal fluid density and may or may not have demonstrable commun...