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. 2016 May 17;7(Suppl 13):S361–S365. doi: 10.4103/2152-7806.182549

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Sagittal views showing lytic, blastic, and mixed vertebral body metastasis in a 60-year-old patient with breast cancer. (a) Computed tomography depicting upper and mid-thoracic lytic (small arrows), blastic (large arrows), and mixed (small and large arrow) vertebral body metastasis. Lesions are mostly hypointense on T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (b), hypointense on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (c), with patchy contrast enhancement on T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (d)