Abstract:
The Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the gold standard in Sufficiently
depicting the cervical spine disorders, but There is a wide variability in the
reported prevalence of different MRI findings and only limited knowledge is
available to inform the clinician about what should be expected of MRI findings
at different populations .so this thesis studies the MRI findings in the cervical
spine in Sudanese patients.
This study was retrospective cross sectional descriptive study. The objective of
this study was to found out the common MRI finding for cervical spine in
Sudanese patients and its relations with age and gender and determine the most
affected level. Data were collected from 53patients from both genders their ages
between 20 to 80 years old came to radiological departments of Aliaa Specialist
Hospital, Alribat University Hospital, and Antalya Centre for cervical MRI scan
in a period from July 2020 to September 2020. The data were collected from
medical reports using data collecting sheet. The data analysed by SPSS
(version 19).The study found that the most common MRI findings were disc
bulge(52.6%), disc degenerative changes (22.7%), and spondylosis (11.3%),
while the most common affected disc level were C4/C5 (29.9%), C5/C6
(26.8%) and C3/C4 (24.7%).The study showed that the cervical disorder is
common in female and in subject over forty but also The study revealed that the
MRI findings had no significant different nor with age neither with gender. The
study recommended to evaluate younger age groups which suffering from neck
pain.
