Today at CDI, we had a college student who is a Cross Country runner and has been experiencing lower back, left hip and left buttock pain for the past 8 days. His doctor sent him in for an MRI of the lumbar spine to see if he may have a possible disc, pars or facet injury.
We ran a routine lumbar spine and in looking for a pars fracture the technologist noticed in the Sagittal Stir that the left side of the sacrum was bright. So we re-centered to the sacrum and ran a Coronal view with the angle of the sacrum which really displayed a fracture of the left sacrum. The technologist then called the Radiologist to review the routine Lumbar Spine along with the extra Coronal view to see if he needed any additional views in which he asked her to run a T1 Axial through the sacrum.
It was amazing to see a sacrum fracture. The fact that we were scanning for a possible fracture in the lumbar spine and ended up finding one in the sacrum instead just shows how observant the technologist was. I have so much to learn but I am thankful that I am able to observe and expand my knowledge at CDI here in Indianapolis. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!
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