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. 2017 Jun 5;18:244. doi: 10.1186/s12891-017-1608-z

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Fig. 5 — 64-year-old male with fever and low back pain. Sagittal T1 W (a) and STIR (b) MR images show extensive bone marrow edema involving entire L2 vertebral body and anterior portion of L1 vertebral body. High b-value (1000) axial diffusion weighted image (c) shows a right paraspinal soft tissue lesion with restricted diffusion (arrow) with associated decreased ADC values on ADC map (d, arrow). Biopsy of the lesion confirmed bacterial spondylodiscitis at L1/2 with a paraspinal abscess. Staphylococcus aureus was the causative organism