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Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Fig. 1 | Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

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From: Coronal STIR sequence, a simple adjustment to routine MRI protocol for extra-spinal sciatica and sciatica-like symptoms

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A graph presentation of MRI findings as reported using set 1 (routine MR protocol images) and set 2 (routine protocol MR images and additional coronal STIR images). N normal MR images of the lumbar spine, P1 positive spinal abnormalities, P2 positive extra-spinal abnormalities and P3 spinal and extra-spinal abnormalities. The percentage of normal studies (blue column) has been downgraded from 21% on set 1 to 13% on set 2, on the expense of increase in the number of extra-spinal abnormalities (gray and green columns) detected after adding coronal STIR images

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