Prevalence of incidental intraspinal lipoma of the lumbosacral spine as determined by MRI

The prevalence and appearance on MRI of lipomas of the filum terminale was studied in a random population referred to MRI for evaluation of the lumbosacral spine. The MRI scans of 100 patients selected at random were retrospectively reviewed. The study sought to determine the frequency and MRI appea...

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description The prevalence and appearance on MRI of lipomas of the filum terminale was studied in a random population referred to MRI for evaluation of the lumbosacral spine. The MRI scans of 100 patients selected at random were retrospectively reviewed. The study sought to determine the frequency and MRI appearance of incidental filum lipomas in a random population. Postmortem studies have reported a 4%-6% incidence of occult fibrolipomas of the filum terminale in what were thought to be otherwise normal spinal cords. The improved resolution of MRI imaging allows the detection of small amounts of fat associated with the filum terminale that heretofore had not been demonstrated on radiologic imaging examinations. The lumbosacral spine unenhanced MRI scans of 100 patients not previously operated upon were selected at random and were retrospectively reviewed by two of the authors (EB and JCM). Of the 100 MRI examinations reviewed, four patients were found to have small lipomas of the filum terminale. No spinal dysraphism or cord tethering were present in these four patients. Their clinical symptoms were related to disc herniation in two patients, spinal stenosis in one, and discitis in one. The lipomatous tissue was hyperintense to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) on T1-weighted images and hypointense to CSF on T2-weighted images. Incidental lipomas of the filum terminale were present in 4% of 100 lumbosacral spine MRI examinations in a random population.
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