Fig. 3
The third patient’s follow-up PET/MRI at 12-month anti-TB medication therapy (b) revealed sustained abscesses around the paravertebral space with intra-abscess SUVmax (from 6.67 of PET/MRI at diagnosis to 7.02) even though decreased bone marrow edema and epidural abscess on T8–9 compared with PET/MRI at diagnosis (a). After additional three months of anti-TB medication, the leak of the tuberculous abscess through the fistula developed again