Female, 63 years old, with chronic low back pain. Image quality is degraded by motion artifact on some sequences. Spinal alignment is anatomic. Vertebral body heights are preserved. Marrow signal characteristics are diffusely heterogeneous. STIR hyperintensity in the T12 vertebral body, and along the anterior L5-S1 endplates, is favored to be degenerative in nature. The visualized distal spinal cord, conus and nerve roots of the cauda equina are unremarkable. No epidural lesions are suspected. A large left renal cyst is partially visualized.T11-12: Facet arthropathy. Mild disc bulging. No significant spinal canal or foraminal stenosis.T12-L1: Mild disc bulging. No significant spinal canal or foraminal stenosis.L1-2: Unremarkable. L2-3: Unremarkable. L3-4: Facet arthropathy. Ligamentum flavum thickening. Disc bulging. Mild spinal canal stenosis. Mild bilateral foraminal narrowing. L4-5: Facet arthropathy. Ligamentum flavum thickening. Mild disc bulging. No spinal canal stenosis. Mild right foraminal narrowing. L5-S1: Facet arthropathy. Disc bulging. Moderate to severe bilateral foraminal narrowing.
Multilevel degeneration of the disks and posterior elements is seen. No areas of high-grade spinal canal stenosis are detected. Significant foraminal narrowing is seen bilaterally at L5-S1. Edema within the T12 vertebral body and at the L5-S1 endplates is favored to be degenerative in nature.