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A case of traumatic lumbar meningoceles at four levels in combination with total and partial nerve root avulsion and with perservation of a nerve root is reported. Several diagnostic imaging techniques (myelography, CT, myelo-CT and MRI) are compared and their value in demonstrating the continuity of the nerve roots is discussed. MRI could assess the continuity of a nerve root in a traumatic meningocele, not demonstrable by myelography or myelo-CT. The combination of myelography, myelo-CT and MRI is likely to provide a complete diagnostic evaluation of nerve root lesions.
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Verstraete, K.L.A., Martens, F., Smeets, P. et al. Traumatic lumbosacral nerve root meningoceles. Neuroradiology 31, 425–429 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00343868
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