Establishing the diagnosis of tuberculous vertebral osteomyelitis
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MR imaging characteristics of tuberculous spondylitis vs vertebral osteomyelitis.
Retrospective evaluation was made of four patients with tuberculous spondylitis who had been studied by MR with T1- and T2-weighted images in the sagittal plane and spin-density-weighted images in the axial plane. Evaluation was made of the distribution of abnormal signals within the body and posterior elements of the vertebrae, the intervertebral disk, and the associated paraspinal and epidura...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Spine Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0940-6719,1432-0932
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-012-2348-2