http://www.appliedradiology.com RSS Feed on Applied Radiologyhttp://www.appliedradiology.com//Issues/2008/10/Cases/Online-Radiological-Case--Idiopathic-epidural-lipomatosis.aspx<p> <em>Prepared by <strong>Feroze Shaheen, MD, Manjeet Singh, MD, Tariq Gojwari, MD, Hamid Banday, DMRD, Mohd Farooq Mir, DNB,</strong> Department of Radiodiagnosis, and <strong>Mohammad Maqbool, MD, DM,</strong> Department of Neurology, SK Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, Kashmir, India.</em> </p> <p> <strong>CASE SUMMARY</strong> </p> <p>A 35-year-old nonsmoking, nonalcoholic man presented to the neurology office with a 3-month history of signs and symptoms of compressive myelopathy. The patient did not report any fever, rigors, or chills. All baseline laboratory investigations were unremarkable. The patient was not receiving any drugs except for occasional painkillers. The patient was of average height and weight for his age. A computed tomography (CT) scan was performed (Figure 1), followed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (Figures 2 and 3).</p>Friday, 17 Oct 2008 14:26:47 GMT