Fig. 4.

The MRI of a 23-year-old woman complaining of continuous lumbago with tuberculous spondylitis. The sagittal MRI T1WI (a), the sagittal MRI with fat saturation (b) and the coronal MRI T2WI (c) presented a combination of MRI findings: the lesions, in lumbar vertebral bodies 4 and 5, showed hypointense signal in T1WI and hyperintense signal in T2WI. They revealed typical vertebral bodies destruction and collapse, along with the vertebral posterior convex deformity and a narrowed intervertebral space. There also existed extensive psoas abscess and paraspinal abscess around