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Fig. 5 | BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Fig. 5

From: Magnetic resonance imaging of bacterial and tuberculous spondylodiscitis with associated complications and non-infectious spinal pathology mimicking infections: a pictorial review

Fig. 5

64-year-old male with fever and low back pain. Sagittal T1 W (a) and STIR (b) MR images show extensive bone marrow edema involving entire L2 vertebral body and anterior portion of L1 vertebral body. High b-value (1000) axial diffusion weighted image (c) shows a right paraspinal soft tissue lesion with restricted diffusion (arrow) with associated decreased ADC values on ADC map (d, arrow). Biopsy of the lesion confirmed bacterial spondylodiscitis at L1/2 with a paraspinal abscess. Staphylococcus aureus was the causative organism

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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

ISSN: 1471-2474

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