Diffusion-Weighted MRI "Claw Sign" Improves Differentiation of Infectious from Degenerative Modic Type 1 Signal Changes of the Spine - Concepedia

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Diffusion-Weighted MRI "Claw Sign" Improves Differentiation of Infectious from Degenerative Modic Type 1 Signal Changes of the Spine

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2014

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Kalpesh Patel, Michael Poplawski, Puneet Pawha, Thomas P. Naidich, Lawrence Tanenbaum

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Abstract

In patients with type 1 signal changes of the vertebral disk space, a claw sign is highly suggestive of degeneration and its absence strongly suggests diskitis/osteomyelitis.

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