Fig. 31.
A 2-year-old boy with back pain. a–c Sagittal T2 (a), T1 (b) and T1 post-gadolinium (c) magnetic resonance images of the spine show the involved T12, L1 and L2 vertebral bodies with a soft tissue mass that enhances homogeneously and protrudes posteriorly into the spinal canal compressing the cauda equina (arrows). Note the enhancing vertebral bodies and the T2 hypointense non-enhancing discs, also the involvement of the dens of C2 that was not suspected clinically. Tuberculosis was confirmed