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GIOVANNI DI CHIRO, MD; ROBERT L. FISHER, MD

Arch Neurol. 1964;11(2):125-143.

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"... the spinal subarachnoid space was full of air, and in this column of air the shadow of the spinal cord was very distinct."—Dandy

So wrote Dandy²⁹ in his classical report in 1919 to open the new field of contrast radiographic investigation—spinal cord myelography.^* Two years later, myelography was first used to diagnose spinal tumors.^62,144 Subsequently, many different contrast media were introduced—iodized oils¹²¹ (1922), methiodal⁶ (1931), colloidal thorium dioxide¹⁰⁸ (1932), iodophendylate (Pantopaque)^109,128 (1944), meglumine iothalamate (Conray)²⁵ (1962) and SH—617L ^140,150 (1963)—many technical refinements of the procedures occurred,^99,111 and the radiographic findings in pathological conditions were thoroughly described.^{23,83,99,102,142}

It has, thus, become possible to localize spinal tumors by a number of methods with a high degree of accuracy (Table 1). Atrophic conditions of the cord have also been recognized radiographically (Table 2). Despite these developments, however, early expansive or atrophie alterations . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BETHESDA, MD

From the Neuroradiological Section, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 6, 1964; accepted April 10.

The term, spinal cord myelography, may appear redundant. So often myelography is performed without studying the cord, however, that the use of this pleonasm seemed appropriate in a paper dealing primarily with the spinal cord.

For structure see Table 12.

References 3, 16, 27, 30, 66, 139, and 141.

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