Teaching NeuroImages: 'Mini brain' sign: A radiologic marker for vertebral solitary plasmacytoma
| Autor: | José Luiz Pedroso, Luiz Alves Ferreira-Filho, Acary Souza Bulle Oliveira, Orlando Graziani Povoas Barsottini, Eduardo A. H. Sato, James Henrique Yared, Nelson Paes Fortes Diniz-Ferreira |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty Spinal Neoplasms medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Neuroimaging Low back pain Thoracic Vertebrae Surgery Vertebral body High erythrocyte sedimentation rate Neurology Biopsy Parenchyma medicine Humans Female Neurology (clinical) Radiology medicine.symptom business Solitary plasmacytoma Plasmacytoma |
| Zdroj: | Neurology. 82:e210-e211 |
| ISSN: | 1526-632X 0028-3878 |
| DOI: | 10.1212/wnl.0000000000000494 |
| Popis: | A 41-year-old woman presented with refractory low back pain for the last 6 months. Neurologic examination was normal. Blood tests showed high erythrocyte sedimentation rate. A spine MRI (figure 1) disclosed involvement of the T12 vertebral body. There was hyperintense signal in T2-weighted sequence and multiple linear hypointense areas with cortical and radiated pattern resembling the brain parenchyma (the “mini brain” sign) (figure 2). Biopsy confirmed solitary plasmacytoma. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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