PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Dibbern, D A
AU  - Loevner, L A
AU  - Lieberman, A P
AU  - Salhany, K E
AU  - Freese, A
AU  - Marcotte, P J
TI  - MR of thoracic cord compression caused by epidural extramedullary hematopoiesis in myelodysplastic syndrome.
DP  - 1997 Feb 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 363--366
VI  - 18
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/18/2/363.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/18/2/363.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1997 Feb 01; 18
AB  - Spinal cord compression caused by extramedullary hematopoiesis is a rare complication of chronic anemic states, most frequently occurring in patients with beta-thalassemia. We report the MR appearance of extramedullary hematopoiesis resulting in cord compression in a patient with a myelodysplastic syndrome, which was isointense with the spinal cord on T1-weighted images and markedly hypointense on fast spin-echo T2-weighted images, and that demonstrated enhancement.