Radiology Corner: Case #4

The latest case of the FPM Radiology Corner takes a look at a patient with lumbar back pain.

Produced by the FPM Learning Editors with contribution from Charlotte Bevan, University of Cambridge Medical Student.

Overview

A 80-year-old lady presented with a history of chronic low lumbar back pain, worse on the left-hand side for some years. Over the past year, she was also reporting a mixture of bilateral claudicant leg pain and elements of radicular leg pain particularly on the left-hand side.

She had an MRI scan of the Lumbar spine.

  • Spot the issues in the image and fill in the labels. 
  • There was also an incidental finding picked up, can you spot it?

 

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Additionally a CT scan of the abdomen was requested.

  • What can you see in the image?

 

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