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View larger version (71K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. A 67-year-old man with difficulty walking and recent constipation, nocturia, and anorexia was found to have wasting of his legs and a firm, enlarged prostate. A chest radiograph, lateral view (Panel A), showed sclerosis of the entire T7 vertebral body. A sagittal T1-weighted magnetic resonance image (Panel B) also demonstrated decreased signal intensity of the T7 vertebral body (white arrow) and spinous process (short black arrow) and of the T5 posterior vertebral body and spinous process. In addition, there was a posterior epidural soft-tissue mass (long black arrows) extending from T6 (inferior endplate) to T8 (midbody) . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 

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