The biologic cost-effectiveness of computed tomography (CT) versus myelography is so favorable to CT that it is now the method of choice for evaluating patients with less clear-cut clinical findings. CT is now used to detect lesions formerly difficult to diagnose, such as subluxation, arthrosis, facet osteophytes, and stenosis of the vertebral canal, as well as herniated disks and lateral disks. The findings in over 1,000 patients examined by CT for lumbosacral spinal pathology are documented. Associated or multiple abnormalities were present in about 60% of cases, with bulging or herniated disks occurring in 45% and 44%, respectively. Postsurgical arachnoiditis was seen in 43% of 64 patients studied for recurrence of symptoms after surgery.

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[Plasmapheresis in the treatment of chronic secondary nephropathy of various etiologies].

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[Current diagnostic and therapeutic prospects in cervical spinal and spinal cord pathology].

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[Computerized tomography and myelography. Indications and integration].

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[Study of lactoferrin in the pancreatico-duodenal juice. Limitations in the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis].

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Extraskeletal osteosarcoma of the mediastinum associated with long-term patient survival. A case report.

The authors report a case of mediastinal extraskeletal osteosarcoma showing immunohistochemical and ultrastructural features of epithelial differentiation and associated with a long-term patient survival. The possible role of flow cytometric DNA analysis in defining the prognosis of this tumor is discussed.

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