Fatty Replacement of Muscles Adjacent to Spinal Osteoid Osteoma

1 February 1984

journal article
case report
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Vol. 8 (1) , 147-148
https://doi.org/10.1097/00004728-198402000-00033

Abstract

A case of lumbar osteoid osteoma is presented in which computed tomography (CT) demonstrated ipsilateral fatty replacement of the psoas and paraspinal muscles. This association has not been documented on CT previously. The fatty replacement of muscle may be related to atrophy.

Keywords

TOMOGRAPHY
LUMBAR
SPINAL
ADJACENT
OSTEOID
IPSILATERAL
PSOAS
FATTY
REPLACEMENT OF MUSCLE