Presentation
Back pain.
Patient Data
Age: Elderly.
Gender: Female
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A lumbar vertebral body is sclerotic and collapsed with classical horizontal cleft of gas within the bone (as well as degenerative gas in a number of the discs). This appearance is very typical of avascular necrosis (Kümmell disease).