Case of the week

63-year-old man with methicillin-resistant staphylococcal aureus (MRSA) bacteremia and back pain

The question posed to readers

What are the pertinent radiologic findings? What is your differential diagnosis?

Images

Radiograph 1 from archived case 186 — Figure 1

Radiograph 2 from archived case 186 — Figure 2

Imaging findings

Answer Diagnosis:

Answer

Diagnosis:

The answer to this case was not published in the collection before it went offline; what survives is the history, the question and the images above.

Original case written by its authors at Virginia Commonwealth University and published at this address as part of a weekly teaching collection. Reproduced here as an archive.

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