Weekend Reading

Do you have a little extra time on your hands this weekend? If so, check out one of these recommended manuscripts.

Diagnostic Articles

• Lumbosacral Transitional Vertebrae

• Localizing the L5 Vertebra Using Nerve Morphology on MRI: An Accurate and Reliable Technique

• Imaging Approach to Myelopathy: Acute, Subacute, and Chronic

• Imaging of Atlanto-Occipital and Atlantoaxial Traumatic Injuries: What the Radiologist Needs to Know

• Uncommon Manifestations of Intervertebral Disk Pathologic Conditions

• Imaging Psoas Sign in Lumbar Spinal Infections: Evaluation of Diagnostic Accuracy and Comparison with Established Imaging Characteristics

• Diffusion-weighted MRI "claw sign" improves differentiation of infectious from degenerative modic type 1 signal changes of the spine

• New MRI Grading System for the Cervical Canal Stenosis

• Multidetector CT of Blunt Cervical Spine Trauma in Adults

• MRI Findings in Children With Acute Flaccid Paralysis and Cranial Nerve Dysfunction Occurring During the 2014 Enterovirus D68 Outbreak

• 2015 Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Native Vertebral Osteomyelitis in Adults

• Lumbar disc nomenclature: version 2.0: Recommendations of the combined task forces of the North American Spine Society, the American Society of Spine Radiology and the American Society of Neuroradiology

• Intracranial hypotension: improved MRI detection with diagnostic intracranial angles

• Localizing the L5 Vertebra Using Nerve Morphology on MRI: An Accurate and Reliable Technique

• Spinal Hematomas: What a Radiologist Needs to Know

• Spinal subdural hemorrhage in abusive head trauma: a retrospective study

• The Art of Interpreting Cervical Spine Radiographs

• Injuries to the Rigid Spine: What the Spine Surgeon Wants to Know

• Fundamentals of Radiation Oncology for Treatment of Vertebral Metastases

Interventional Articles

• Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: A Systematic Imaging Approach for CSF Leak Localization and Management Based on MRI and Digital Subtraction Myelography

• Number Needed to Treat with Vertebral Augmentation to Save a Life

• Technique for CT fluoroscopy-guided cervical interlaminar steroid injections

• Extraforaminal needle tip position reduces risk of intravascular injection in CT-fluoroscopic lumbar transforaminal epidural steroid injections

• CT-guided Perineural Injections for Chronic Pelvic Pain

• Society of Interventional Radiology Consensus Guidelines for the Periprocedural Management of Thrombotic and Bleeding Risk in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Image-Guided Interventions-Part I: Review of Anticoagulation Agents and Clinical Considerations: Endorsed by the Canadian Association for Interventional Radiology and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe

• Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty for Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures: What Are the Latest Data?

• Outcome of percutaneous rupture of lumbar synovial cysts: a case series of 101 patients

• Long-Term Effectiveness of Direct CT-Guided Aspiration and Fenestration of Symptomatic Lumbar Facet Synovial Cyst

• C1 Posterior Arch Flare Point: A Useful Landmark for Fluoroscopically Guided C1-2 Puncture

• Intraosseous basivertebral nerve ablation for the treatment of chronic low back pain: a prospective randomized double-blind sham-controlled multi-center study

• Intraosseous Basivertebral Nerve Ablation for the Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain: 2-Year Results From a Prospective Randomized Double-Blind Sham-Controlled Multicenter Study

• Long-term outcomes following intraosseous basivertebral nerve ablation for the treatment of chronic low back pain: 5-year treatment arm results from a prospective randomized double-blind sham-controlled multi-center study

• A prospective, randomized, multicenter study of intraosseous basivertebral nerve ablation for the treatment of chronic low back pain

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