Pathological vertebral fracture

Case contributed by Roberto Schubert
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Aggravating back pain in a breast cancer patient with known skeletal metastases.

Patient Data

Age: 55 years
Gender: Female

Frontal split/burst fracture of L2 with disseminated osteolytic vertebral metastases.

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