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American Journal of Neuroradiology, Vol 18, Issue 3 455-458, Copyright © 1997 by American Society of Neuroradiology

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MR of staphylococcal myelitis of the cervical spinal cord

HM Friess and JJ Wasenko
Department of Radiology, State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse 13210, USA.

A homogeneously enhancing cervical cord lesion and multiple ring- enhancing brain lesions were detected with MR imaging in a 41-year-old woman with a staphylococcal septicemia. The brain and spinal cord lesions diminished in size after antibiotic therapy. Although no biopsy was performed, we believe, on the basis of the clinical outcome, that the spinal cord lesion represented a bacterial myelitis and that the lesion was prevented from developing into an abscess by early antibiotic therapy.




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