What does lumbar spine MRI examine and what is its function

The lumbar spine is the part that we need to focus on protecting. The lumbar spine is the pillar that supports the entire upper body. Therefore, once the lumbar spine is injured, it may cause great harm to the body. Modern medicine can use magnetic resonance imaging technology to detect lumbar spine diseases in advance and prevent them before they occur. So, what does lumbar MRI check and what is its function?

1. Check the lumbar soft tissue lesions: Regardless of whether they originate from tumors, infections, degenerative lesions of nerves, blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, muscles, connective tissues, etc., more accurate positioning and qualitative diagnosis can be made.

2. Bones and joints: The diagnosis and scope of bone infection, tumor, and trauma, especially subtle changes such as bone contusion, have great value. It also has high diagnostic value for lesions of intra-articular cartilage, ligaments, meniscus, synovium, synovial bursa, and bone marrow lesions.

3. Chest lesions: tumors, lymph nodes and pleural lesions in the mediastinum, etc., can show the relationship between the lung masses and larger trachea and blood vessels.

4. Pelvic organs: uterine fibroids, other uterine tumors, ovarian tumors, qualitative location of pelvic masses, tumors of the rectum, prostate and bladder, etc.

5. Abdominal organs: Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of liver cancer, hepatic hemangioma and liver cysts, diagnosis and differential diagnosis of intra-abdominal masses, especially retroperitoneal lesions.

6. Check the lesions of the lumbar soft nervous system: cerebral infarction, brain tumor, inflammation, degenerative disease, congenital malformation, trauma, etc. It is the earliest applied human system and has accumulated rich experience. The positioning and qualitative diagnosis of lesions are relatively accurate and timely, and early lesions can be discovered.