A 66-Year-Old Woman with a Progressive, Longitudinally Extensive, Tract Specific, Myelopathy

Figure 1

Sagittal T2-weighted MR images through the cervical (a) and thoracic (b) spine demonstrate diffuse, hyperintense signal in the posterior columns, extending nearly the entire length of the spinal cord. An axial T2W image at T9-T10 (c) demonstrates the cross-sectional extent of the signal abnormality.

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