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MRI in Spine Infection

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Spine infection is unfortunately a common occurrence, especially in susceptible patient populations. Differentiating infection from other non-infectious disease processes can be extremely difficult both clinically and on imaging. This chapter will review imaging of pyogenic spondylodiscitis, tuberculous spondylodiscitis, fungal spondylodiscitis, infectious sacroiliitis, and epidural abscesses with focus on the unique imaging features differentiating these conditions from non-infectious disease processes in the spine.

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Jesse, M.K., Ho, C.K. (2020). MRI in Spine Infection. In: Morrison, W., Carrino, J., Flanders, A. (eds) MRI of the Spine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43627-8_5

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