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A 24-year-old man, with history of intravenous drug use, complained of pain localized in thoracolumbar junction (T12-L1) for several months. The pain had become more severe in the last weeks. The patient also had daily vespertine fever in the 2 previous months.

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  1. Diagnostic and Therapeutics Neuroradiolgy, Reina Sofía University Hospital, Menéndez Pidal, 14004, Córdoba, Spain

    Francisco de Asís Bravo-Rodríguez

  2. Department of Radiology, Alto Guadalquivir Hospital, Av. Blas Infante s/n, 23740, Andújar, Jaén, Spain

    Rocío Díaz-Aguilera

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de Asís Bravo-Rodríguez, F., Díaz-Aguilera, R. (2012). Spine. In: Bravo-Rodríguez, F., Diaz-Aguilera, R., Hygino Cruz Jr., L. (eds) Learning Neuroimaging. Learning Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22999-2_5

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