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Unusual CT/MR features of putative ligamentum flavum ossification in a North African woman.

Jaffan I, Abu-Serieh B, Duprez T, Cosnard G, Raftopoulos C

Department of Neurosurgery, Saint-Luc Hospital, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.

To display the unusual spinal CT and MR findings in a 48-year-old North African woman presenting with two adjacent intracanalar mineralized epidural outgrowths exhibiting mature bone organization with "cortical" and "trabecular" areas and pseudoarthritic changes at their interface. An unusual form of ligamentum flavum ossification (LFO) was speculated, of which features are discussed under the light of the available literature.

Published 24 July 2006 in Br J Radiol, 79(944): e67-70.
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