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sounds like sigmoid intensity?

Posted By: NotMyDay on 2009-04-21
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Subject: sounds like sigmoid intensity?

The official read of her MRI is that there is severe cervical spinal stenosis at the C6-7 level, with cord impingement in an area of high T2 **s/l sigmoid** intensity at this level presenting edema or gliosis......


Sigmoid just doesnt make sense to me here.  Any ideas?




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