Case Report

Chest Pain? An Unusual Presentation of Vertebral Osteomyelitis

Figure 1

(a) CT angiogram chest showing a large soft tissue mass at the T3-T4 vertebral space with associated osseous destruction of the T4 vertebral body. (b) MRI of the thoracic spine, T1 weighted, showing T3-T4 disk space narrowing, endplate destruction, and marrow edema. There is also a soft tissue mass extending from the space anteriorly in the prevertebral space.
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