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I don't understand my MRI spine imaging
Spine Health | Last Active: Sep 22, 2023 | Replies (18)Comment receiving replies
Has anyone ever had a radiologist read your MRI wrong? I just had an MRI done because I had a fast onset of significant pain. For history I’ve had 2 ACDF’s C3/4 on 12/30/22 and on 3/2022 had fusion of C5-7 plus a revision of C5-7 due to osteomyelitis. So the new MRI was done on a machine with software to reduce metal artifacts. The report was surprising because it lacked the details that are normally seen on MRI The difference is stunning. The radiologist stated I had gone through ACDF on C4-5 which I’ve not had done. The images look exactly like the images done prior to ACDF 3-4. Very curious if anyone has had this type of thing happen and how it ended. My surgeon reads MRI himself so I’m not too concerned with it
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bad2thebone, this is a valuable warning for us. MRI has a 97 or 99% accuracy for reading arachnoiditis. Is there good treatment? Do you know the cause? Usually orthopedists are trained to read MRIs, but many mds rely on the radiolo gist. Twice, though. This must be a common oversight. I appreciate your post.
Nice of you to bring this to our attention. Could you MD see it on the new MRI? Will you contact the radiologist?
Thank you
Hello @sb4ca. I noticed you had started another discussion on the same topic, so you will see that I have moved this post here now, and I've updated the original title to help bring in other members:
- I don't understand my MRI spine imaging: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/now-im-scared-mri/
I see you've had several members join you to give you reassurance about the images themselves. When will you receive feedback from your doctor?
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I had an MRI done some time around 2010 and radiologist reported nothing wrong. I finally got to a new doctor and he looked at it along with a radiologist inn his office and he said I had arachnoiditis. In 2020 I had another one done and. The same thing happened again. The new ortho doctor said it was arachnoiditis and it was 5 levels of scar tissue. MRI’s are supposed to be the best it’s just the radiologist that I have a problem with. If the doctor can see it why can’t he. Something is wrong.