Radiology Corner: Case #5
Case #5 of the FPM Radiology Corner examines a patient with claudicant leg pain.
Presented by the FPM Learning Editors with contribution from Charlotte Bevan, University of Cambridge Medical Student.
An 85-year-old lady presented with claudicant leg pain on a background of long standing back pain.
She went on to have an MRI scan of the lumbar spine and the following are a sagittal and axial section.
- Point out the relevant changes of note



- What is the differential diagnosis?
- How would you manage her?
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Further Reading
- Serratice N et al, Spinal meningiomas from biology to management – a literature review. Fron Oncol 2022; 12:1084404
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9880047/ - Radiopaedia Spinal meningiomas
https://radiopaedia.org/articles/spinal-meningioma?lang=gb