Back pain and condensation of the eighth thoracic vertebra: Is it always a metastatic disease?

CER2729
2006 Vol.24, N°1
PI 0089, PF 0092
Case Reports

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PMID: 16539826 [PubMed]

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The case of a 55-year-old female patient with discogenic sclerosis of a thoracic vertebra is illuminated by a radiologic vignette. The clinical and radiologic features, including those of conventional radiography, computed tomography scanning and magnetic resonance imaging are hallmarked in this portrait. The importance of differentiating the condition particularly from infectious spondylodiscitis and metastatic disease to the spine is underpinned.