Jorge O. Suarez MD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Jaime Martinez MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Juan andres mora MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

German Enrique Galvis MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Carolina Tramontini, Abstract Co-Author: Speaker, Merck KGaA Speaker, Novartis AG

Review magnetic resonance imaging of common sacrum pathology including congenital lesions, inflammatory bone diseases, trauma, infection, benign and malignant neoplasms and post-operative changes.   Discuss the utility of MRI particularly in lesions that may be easily missed on other imaging modalities. To explain useful classifications in congenital and inflamatory diseases of the sacrum.   Describe the most common sacral bone neoplasms, considering benign lesions as giant cell tumor, aneurysmal bone cyst, osteoid osteoma and osteoblastoma and malignant lesions as metastases, chordoma, myeloma and sacroiliac joint invasion by other tumours. Recognize differential diagnosis of sacral canal neoplasms that develop from lower lumbosacral nerve roots as ependymomas, meningiomas, schwannomas, and neurofibromas.

Introduction   MRI protocols Anatomy of the sacrum Congenital sacral lesions Inflammatory bone diseases Traumatic lesions Infectious lesions Benign bone tumors Malignant bone tumors Sacral canal neoplasms Post-operative Conclusions

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Suarez, J, Martinez, J, mora, J, Galvis, G, Tramontini, C, Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Sacrum Pathology.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14012018.html