1. Vertebral osteomyelitis after cardiac surgery
Şenol Akman, MD, Ufuk Talu, MD, Abdullah Göğüş, MD, Mustafa Güden, MD, Mustafa Şirvanci, MD, Azmi Hamzaoğlu, MD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 75, Issue 4, Pages (April 2003)
DOI: /S (02)

2. Fig 1
Magnetic resonance imaging of case 4. (A) Spin echo (SE) T1-weighted image on midsagittal plane. T7 vertebral body (white arrow) has hypointensity and loss of height. Posterior margin bulges into the spinal canal and causes spinal cord compression. Posterior epidural abscess (black arrows) is seen as hypointense areas within hyperintense epidural fat. Note hypointense signal in the anterior part of T8 vertebral body due to osteomyelitis. (B) Fast spin echo (FSE) T2-weighted image of the same patient on parasagittal plane. Osteomyelitis of T7 (large arrow) extends into T8 vertebral body through the anterior part of the intervening disc (small arrow).
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3. Fig 2
Magnetic resonance imaging of case 1. (A) Fast spin echo (FSE) T2-weighted image on sagittal plane demonstrating L5 to S1 discitis (arrow) within the posterior part of the disc and prominent epidural abscess (arrowheads). (B) Axial spin echo (SE) T1-weighted image after intravenous gadolinium injection showing anterior epidural abscess (arrows) with rim enhancement and central necrotic material.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (02) )