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. 2017 May 26;96(21):e6387. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000006387

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis. Fat-Sat: T1 or T2 sequence with saturation of fat signal. Vertebral osteomyelitis show intervertebral disc and adjacent vertebrae hyposignal on T1 sequence, contrast enhancement in T1 sequence with Gadolinium injection. Nucleus of intervertebral disc and adjacent vertebrae appear in hypersignal on T2 sequence. T4-T5 pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis with disc disappearance, vertebral body destruction, kyphotic angulation, epidural inflammation (^∗), and spinal cord compression by an anterior epidural abscess (arrow).