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We present clinical, magnetic resonance imaging, and pathological findings of a 61-year-old patient with an otherwise asymptomatic myelodysplastic syndrome presenting with progressive paraparesis from epidural thoracic spinal extramedullary hematopoiesis. Surgical spinal cord decompression resulted in complete clinical remission.
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Monti, L., Romano, D.G., Gozzetti, A. et al. Myelodysplasia presenting as thoracic spinal epidural extramedullary hematopoiesis: a rare treatable cause of spinal cord myelopathy. Skeletal Radiol 41, 611–614 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00256-011-1268-2
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