A Study of MRI Findings in the Cervical Spine in Sudanese Patients

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.