Platyspondyly is a radiographic sign and refers to flattened vertebral bodies throughout the axial skeleton.
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Pathology
Associations
Platyspondyly can be feature of many conditions which include:
- severe Gaucher disease 1
- metatrophic dysplasia
- Morquio syndrome
- osteogenesis imperfecta
- Roberts syndrome
- thanatophoric dysplasia
- Kniest dysplasia 2
- acromegaly 3
- brachyolmia
History and etymology
The term derives from the ancient greek word πλατύς (platos) meaning flat.
See also
- vertebra plana: single flattened vertebral body
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