MRI

East Midlands Referrals has had the privilege to enjoy on site MRI for the last decade, one of less than twenty such dedicated units nationally. Apart from its tremendous benefit to the spinal patient, it has a broad range of valuable applications, including:

• Tumour imaging and surgical planning


• Diagnostics for brain and spinal cord (including Chiari syndrome and hydrosyringomyelia)


• Joint imaging to detect soft tissue conditions not amenable to other examinations


• Detection of foreign material (especially nasal and pedal)


• Humeral intercondylar fissures where other diagnostic tools may not demonstrate lesions


• Vascular lesions - saddle thrombi and portosystemic shunts