Figure 1.
Modic type 1. A 52-year-old female patient with vertebral bone marrow edema on a sagittal STIR image at L1 to L3 (A, arrows), and with marked irregular, yet intact endplate contours and disc space narrowing on a sagittal T1-w image (B, arrows). There was a decrease of edema on a follow-up examination eight weeks (C, arrows) after the initial presentation.