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Case Reports
. 1997 Feb;18(2):363-6.

MR of thoracic cord compression caused by epidural extramedullary hematopoiesis in myelodysplastic syndrome

D A Dibbern Jr  1 , L A Loevner, A P Lieberman, K E Salhany, A Freese, P J Marcotte
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Case Reports

MR of thoracic cord compression caused by epidural extramedullary hematopoiesis in myelodysplastic syndrome

D A Dibbern Jr et al. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 1997 Feb.

Abstract

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.

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