MRi of the spinal epidural fat in pathology
Daniel, M.; Doyon, D.; Bekkali, F.; Delvalle, A.; Francke, J.P.; Husson, B.; Raybaud, C.; Thiberge, M.
Journal de Radiologie 73(11): 595-603
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0221-0363 PMID: 1295998 Document Number: 395590
The authors report about their experience with the merits of the normal systematization of epidural fat with MRI. On sagittal sections, this fat has a variable appearance, but its location along the spinal canal is constant. On axial sections, its morphology is suggestive of the level of section: cervical, upper or lower thoracic, lumbar. Some changes in this fat are precious data to explain local hypertrophy (scoliosis) or to locate an intra- or extradural process.