Image IQ Quiz: Elderly Patient Presents with Back Pain and Radiculopathy

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Elderly female with back pain and radiculopathy. What is the most likely diagnosis? What is the most common tumor in this location?

Case submitted by Thomas Madaelil, M.D., with Texas Radiology Associates.

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