Alexander James Kieger MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Elliot K. Fishman MD, Abstract Co-Author: Research support, Siemens AG Advisory Board, Siemens AG Research support, General Electric Company Advisory Board, General Electric Company Co-founder, HipGraphics, Inc

Pamela Tecce Johnson MD, Presenter: Research funded, Becton, Dickinson and Company

The spine is imaged on all CT examinations of the chest, abdomen and pelvis. Subtle pathology involving the neural foramen and spinal canal may be the cause of the patient's symptoms or an unsuspected finding. This exhibit reviews ~ The importance of multiplanar review to elucidate subtle findings affecting the spinal canal on CT examinations of the chest, abdomen and pelvis Illustration of range of pathology affecting the neural foramen, spinal canal and spinal cord through case review

CT TECHNIQUE Importance of inspecting spinal canal on axial, sagittal and coronal views Utility of IV contrast for delineating and characterizing pathology CASE SERIES Primary CNS tumors lower cervical spine meningioma on chest CT nerve root tumor Secondary involvement by tumor cancer invading spinal canal through neural foramen or from vertebral body metastastic disease to the spinal canal paraspinal Ewing sarcoma Vascular pathology vertebral artery dissection on chest CT epidural AVM on abdominal CT Infection epidural abscess   discitis 

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Kieger, A, Fishman, E, Johnson, P, Make Time for the Spine! Neuropathology Imaged on Body CT.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14001380.html