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The purpose of this article is to review less common presentations of degenerative disc disease on MR imaging. The images of eight patients were retrospectively analyzed. Six of them had transligamentous (or noncontained) disc herniations, the fragments of which were located in the posterior epidural space in three of them. One patient had a transdural disc fragment and one patient had a disc cyst. The cyst was located in the ventrolateral epidural space. On T2-weighted images, the migrated disc fragment returned a higher signal than the disc of origin in 6 of 7 patients. The disc cyst returned a signal similar to that of cerebrospinal fluid. The MR appearances of disc fragments can be puzzling, particularly if they are located in the posterior epidural space. It is important to recognize the abnormalities in order to differentiate them from less common lesions such as hematoma, abscess and neurinoma.
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Received: 20 May 2000 Revised: 23 August 2000 Accepted: 24 August 2000
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Eerens, I., Demaerel, P., Haven, F. et al. Imaging characteristics of noncontained migrating disc fragment and cyst. Eur Radiol 11, 854–857 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003300000689
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