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Fig. 6 | Insights into Imaging

Fig. 6

From: Identifying lumbosacral plexus nerve root abnormalities in patients with sciatica using 3T readout-segmented echo-planar diffusion weighted MR neurography

Fig. 6

The relationship between ADC values for normal and abnormal lumbosacral nerves. Findings presented are the 7 nerve abnormalities for 7/17 patients who had lumbosacral nerve abnormalities on DWI-RESOLVE which matched both the clinical indications and the EMG/NCV findings. These 7 nerve abnormalities included L5 (n = 2) and S1 (n = 5). The ADC values at b-500 and b-800 for the abnormal nerves were generally higher than those for the normal nerves. However, in two (n = 2) patients, the calculated ADC values for abnormal nerves was lower than for the normal contralateral nerves

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