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Published ahead of print on February 13, 2008
doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A0925
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The Modic Vertebral Endplate and Marrow Changes: Pathologic Significance and Relation to Low Back Pain and Segmental Instability of the Lumbar Spine

R. Rahmea and R. Moussaa

a From the Department of Neurosurgery, Saint-Joseph University and Hôtel-Dieu de France, Beirut, Lebanon


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  		Fig 1. Modic type 1 changes are hypointense on T1WI (A) and hyperintense on T2WI (B).


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  		Fig 2. Modic type 2 changes are hyperintense on T1WI (A) and isointense or hyperintense on T2WI (B).


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  		Fig 3. Modic type 3 changes are hypointense on both T1WI (A) and T2WI (B).





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