Differential diagnosis of vertebral lesions is very wide.
Differential diagnosis
Vertebral body origin
- intraosseous haemangioma
- metastases
- Paget disease
- multiple myeloma
- osteonecrosis
- vertebral body osteomyelitis
- lymphoma
- plasmacytoma
- giant cell tumour
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis
- fibrous dysplasia
- Ewing sarcoma
- osteochondroma
- renal osteodystrophy (brown tumour)
- chondrosarcoma
- chordoma
- osteosarcoma
- echinococcal disease