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A 31-year-old black male with no history of smoking or alcoholism and negative results for HIV has suffered for approximately 8 months with intermittent lower back pain of rapidly progressive installation, associated with anorexia, weight loss and non-specific headache (◘ Figs. 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, and 22.4).

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  1. Department of Radiology, Sagrada Esperança Clínic, Luanda, Angola

    Fidel Bastos & João Comba

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Sagrada Esperança Clínic, Luanda, Angola

    Teresa Bernardo

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  1. Neuroradiology Department, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    João Xavier

  2. Neuroradiology Department, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Cristiana Vasconcelos

  3. Neuroradiology Department, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Cristina Ramos

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Bastos, F., Comba, J., Bernardo, T. (2018). Case 22. In: Xavier, J., Vasconcelos, C., Ramos, C. (eds) Diagnostic and Therapeutic Neuroradiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61140-2_22

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