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  • Age/Sex 43 / M
  • Case Title Vanishing bone metastasis
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Diagnosis With Brief Discussion

Chief Complaint
Fever
Definitive Diagnosis
Vanishing bone metastasis
Past History
None
Reviewy
Introduction
Venous filling related pseudolesions of the vertebrae
Mechanism
Thin walled, valveless intraosseous and extraosseous vertebral venous system ? central basivertebral veins
Higher venous pressure might increase contrast agent reflux into a vertebral body

Normal in unenhanced CT
Presence of a connection between a vertebral body enhancement and paravertebral venous collaterals
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