Fig. 5

Postoperative thoracic haematoma. This figure shows the thoracic spine of a 39-year-old female patient using water-only images (a), in-phase images (b), and fat-only images (d) of the sagittal T2-weighted DIXON sequence, together with a sagittal T1-weighted sequence (c). The patient had undergone decompressive thoracic surgery and presented with a postoperative intradural extramedullary haematoma between T4 and T7 (red asterisks)