Pregnancy and lactation-associated osteoporosis with pyogenic spondylitis: A case report

Figure 1 This patient was a 34-year-old woman. A and B: Lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and enhanced MRI revealed abnormal signals in the lower L4 vertebral body and upper L5 vertebral body, and the corresponding intervertebral space, which indicated lumbar infection (A: T2 fat-suppressing sequence; B: Enhanced scan); C: After one month of anti-osteoporosis and antibiotic treatment, the abnormal signal range get smaller and intensity was lower; D: At the five months follow-up, the abnormal signals scope contracted obviously and the signals of L4 and L5 vertebral bodies were nearly close to normal.