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Fig. 8 | BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Fig. 8

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

Fig. 8

27-year-old-male patient who was an immigrant from South America presented with back pain. Initial MRI was normal. Follow up MRI of the thoracolumbar spine for persistent back pain revealed marrow edema in the lower thoracic spine (yellow circle in a and b). Post contrast imaging showed discitis-osteomyelitis complex (red arrows in c). Note the enhancement of nerve roots suggesting extension of infectious process to the nerve roots causing arachnoiditis (green arrows in c and d)

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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

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