Figure 2.

Axial T2 (a) image of 39-year-old woman with low back pain due to protrusion ‘bulging disc’ in L4–L5 and stenosis of the spinal canal. In this exam, performed in the second month of MRI follow-up after O2–O3 discolysis, the normal T2 signal of the disc in DWI image (b value = 400) (b) and ADC map (c), it is not recognizable from microcysts due to percutaneous treatment. This case was classified as DWI signal score 3.

MRI: magnetic resonance imaging; DWI: diffusion-weighted image; ADC: apparent diffusion coefficient.