Intramedullary Spinal Lesions Involving the Conus Medullaris: MR Imaging Features for Differential Diagnosis
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Intramedullary spinal lesions in the conus medullaris (CM), including tumors, infection and vascular lesion, are rarely reported. Intramedullary spinal cord tumors account for 1% of all central nervous system tumors (1) and some infectious diseases in the CM were reported as case reports (2-10). Moreover some authors described syringomyelia of the CM due to INTRODUCTION �Received; February 21, 2014�Revised; May 20, 2014 �Accepted; May 21, 2014 Corresponding author : Sang Hyun Suh, M.D. Department of Radiology, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 211 Eonju-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-720, Korea. Tel. 82-2-2019-3510, Fax. 82-2-3462-5472, E-mail : [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Intramedullary Spinal Lesions Involving the Conus Medullaris: MR Imaging Features for Differential Diagnosis
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