Abstract
The first myelographic studies performed in the 1920s employed air as the contrast agent, which was exchanged with the cerebrospinal fluid by lumbar puncture. Air ascended to the level of spinal cord compression and this was demonstrated on radiographs. In 1931 Arnell and Lindström injected the irritant iodinated water-soluble contrast agent Abrodil into the lower spinal canal after the administration of spinal anaesthesia, and demonstrated lumbar disc herniations with this positive contrast agent. The necessity for spinal anaesthesia restricted this type of myelography to the lumbar region and the technique enjoyed very limited application outside the Scandinavian countries.
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Occleshaw, J.V. (1989). Myelography. In: Galasko, C.S.B., Isherwood, I. (eds) Imaging Techniques in Orthopaedics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1640-0_5
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