Figure 3From: Low back pain as the presenting sign in a patient with primary extradural melanoma of the thoracic spine - A metastatic disease 17 Years after complete surgical resectionRadiological evaluation. Magnetic resonance sagittal T2 weighted image (image A) and postcontrast sagittal T1 image (image B) of the thoracic spine shows millimetric hyperintense metastases with no residual-recurrent tumor. Multislice computed tomography of the chest and abdomen demonstrated osteolytic (image G) and parenchymal metastases (arrows) in lungs (images C and D), liver and spleen (images E and F).Back to article page