Imaging of spinal stenosis.

Imaging has an important role in the diagnosis of canal and neuroforaminal stenosis when correlated with clinical symptoms. MR and CT myelography have the best correlation because of multiplanar reformatting. Special techniques to load the spine such as an upright MR increase sensitivity in detecting canal stenosis.

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