Fig. 2From: Percutaneous pedicle screw fixation was effective for bone regeneration after a huge vertebral defect due to intractable pyogenic spondylitis caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a case reportAt the second admission. There was slight endplate irregularity in the L1–2 and L2–3 disc spaces on computed tomography (a). There is fluid signal in the L1–2 intervertebral space, which was low intensity on T1-weighted magnetic resonance images and high intensity on T2-weighted MR images and short tau image recovery in MRI (b–d)Back to article page