At each vertebral level in the cervical spinal, a pair of nerves exit through small openings called the intervertebral foramen. These nerves control the motor function and sensation to muscles ...

Parasagittal MRI of the Lumbar Spine - T1-weighted image. Note that this slice provides an unique view of the exiting nerve roots through the intervertebral foramina. The nerve roots exit directly ...

Objective: To report spinal cord infarction secondary to vascular occlusion from disease in a lower thoracic intervertebral foramen. Method: The clinical and imaging findings of two cases with ...

Loss of disk height also narrows the foramina, through which nerve roots ... result of — or independent of — degeneration of the intervertebral disk. Such degeneration leads to pain and ...

Also note the deformity of the adjacent spinal cord. The mass is growing through the intervertebral foramen resulting in the dumb-bell shape. At surgery, pathological examination revealed a schwannoma ...