Marieke van Rosmalen

Chapter 5 84 Figure 5.3 Examples of thickened intraspinal nerve roots Three examples of patients (MND, CIDP and MMN respectively) with thickening (yellow arrows) of the intraspinal nerve roots. The nerve roots imaged here measured over 1 mm diameter. Thickening is evident when the examples are compared with the image in Figure 5.1 In the upper left corner the 3D TSE SPIR (anatomical reference) with the reference line (green). Example 2 had obviously thickened cervical nerve roots in the brachial plexus (upper left panel of example 2), while example 1 and 3 did not have these thickened cervical nerve roots. Abbreviations: CIDP = chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; MMN = multifocal motor neuropathy; MND = motor neuron disease.