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case_images: MRI demonstrating abnormal T2 hyperintensity with accompanying inflammatory changes at the L2-L3 level. Chronic multilevel
  severe spinal canal stenosis is also present.
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case_images: Ch1.F1
case_images: Her primary care physician ordered magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) which demonstrated L2-L3 disk space infection, namely abnormal T2 hyperintensity in the disk space, abnormal marrow edema in the adjacent endplates with minimal destruction of the inferior endplate of L2, and accompanying inflammatory phlegmon extending laterally to the right greater than left psoas muscles; no discrete abscess was identified (Fig. 1).