Medical Specialty:
Neurology

Sample Name: CT Lumbar Spine - 2


Description: This is a middle-aged female with two month history of low back pain and leg pain.
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This is a middle-aged female with two month history of low back pain and leg pain.

FINDINGS:
Axial scans were performed from L1 to S2 and reformatted images were obtained in the sagittal and coronal planes.

Preliminary scout film demonstrates anterior end plate spondylosis at T11-12 and T12-L1.

L1-2: There is normal disc height, anterior end plate spondylosis, very minimal vacuum change with no posterior annular disc bulging or protrusion. Normal central canal, intervertebral neural foramina and facet joints (image #4).

L2-3: There is mild decreased disc height, anterior end plate spondylosis, circumferential disc protrusion measuring 4.6mm (AP) and right extraforaminal osteophyte disc complex. There is mild non-compressive right neural foraminal narrowing, minimal facet arthrosis, normal central canal and left neural foramen (image #13).

L3-4: There is normal disc height, anterior end plate spondylosis, and circumferential non-compressive annular disc bulging. The disc bulging flattens the ventral thecal sac and there is minimal non-compressive right neural foraminal narrowing, minimal to mild facet arthrosis with vacuum change on the right, normal central canal and left neural foramen (image #25).

L4-5: There is normal disc height, minimal anterior end plate spondylosis, and posterior non-compressive annular disc bulging. There is minimal narrowing of the lateral recesses of L5, mild to moderate facet arthrosis greater on the right, normal central canal and intervertebral neural foramina (image #35).

L5-S1: There is severe loss of disc height with vacuum change, spondylolisthesis with 6.9mm of anterolisthesis of L5 with no disc protrusion. There is mild to moderate neural foraminal stenosis with possible neural impingement greater on the right with elongation of the neural foramina, mild facet arthrosis, and moderate degenerative change at the level of the pars interarticularis defect. Normal central canal (image #39, 40, 42).

There is no significant degenerative change at the SI joints.

There is moderate arteriosclerotic calcifications in the abdominal aorta and proximal common iliac arteries.

IMPRESSION:
T11-12, T12-L1 anterior end plate spondylosis.

L1-2 anterior end plate spondylosis, and very minimal vacuum change within the disc space.

L2-3 loss of disc height, anterior end plate spondylosis, circumferential disc protrusion, right extraforaminal osteophyte disc complex, non-displaced right neural foraminal narrowing, and facet arthrosis.

L3-4 anterior end plate spondylosis, circumferential non-compressive annular disc bulging, facet arthrosis, with vacuum change on the right and non-compressive right neural foraminal narrowing.

L4-5 anterior end plate spondylosis, posterior annular disc bulging, facet arthrosis and narrowing of the lateral recesses of L5.

L5-S1 Grade I spondylolisthesis, advanced degenerative disc disease with vacuum change, neural foraminal stenosis possibly impinging exiting L5 nerve roots, degenerative change at the level of the pars interarticularis defect and facet joints.

Arteriosclerotic vascular calcifications.




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