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We describe a patient with clear lesions in the spinal cord on MRI due to subacute combined degeneration. T2-weighted images clearly showed abnormal high signals in the posterior columns, which disappeared on recovery from the disease.
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Murata, S., Naritomi, H. & Sawada, T. MRI in subacute combined degeneration. Neuroradiology 36, 408–409 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00612130
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