Items tagged “vertebra”
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Spinal compression fracture
Spinal compression fractures occur as a result of injury, commonly fall onto the buttock or pressure from normal activities, to the weakened vertebrae due to osteoporosis.
Epidemiology
They have a reported incidence of 1.2 per 1000 person-years after 85 years of age in the United States. Howev...
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Vertebral lesion (differential)
Differential diagnosis of vertebral lesions is very wide.
Differential diagnosis
Vertebral body origin
intraosseous hemangioma
metastases
Paget disease
multiple myeloma
osteonecrosis
vertebral body osteomyelitis
lymphoma
plasmacytoma
giant cell tumor
Langerhans...