Reviewing the lumbar spine on abdominal CT is essential and can provide crucial information for diagnosis. The goal of this application is to provide a pattern based approach to the evaluation of a variety of non traumatic spinal pathology that can be encountered on an abdominal CT. The learn section reviews this pattern based approach in a step wise fashion, utilizing illustrations and CT images. There is also an interactive quiz component to the application, in which unknown cases with a wide range of lumbar spine pathology will be presented. Characteristic imaging findings and differential diagnoses will be highlighted, to help determine the underlying disease processes.
We hope you enjoy the application, and it helps improve your knowledge of lumbar spine pathology.