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Diffusion-weighted imaging in a patient with vertebral and epidural abscesses
James D Eastwood1, Robin T Vollmer, James M Provenzale
1Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center and Durham Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, NC 27710-3808, USA.
AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology
|March 20, 2002
Abstract:
In this report, we describe the appearance of the spinal vertebral body and epidural abscesses in a patient who underwent diffusion-weighted imaging of the spine and CT-guided aspiration of one of the abscesses. The abscesses were hyperintense relative to the surrounding tissues on diffusion-weighted images, and they appeared dark on apparent diffusion coefficient maps; these findings were consistent with those of published reports of the brain and liver.