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Multiple vertebral osteonecrosis
- Source :
- Joint Bone Spine. 75:341-344
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2008.
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Abstract
- Vertebral osteonecrosis classically presents with an intravertebral vacuum cleft phenomenon or a fluid-filled cleft on MR images. These clefts are usually found in older patients presenting with more severe fractures, more significant collapse and instability. Therefore, although considered for a long time as pathognomonic for vertebral osteonecrosis, vertebral clefts are now considered to represent fracture non-union. The double-line sign is classically described for osteonecrosis of long bones, but has been reported in one case of concurrent spinal cord and vertebral bone marrow radionecrosis. We present a case of a histologically confirmed multilevel vertebral osteonecrosis manifesting as a double-line sign in the absence of an associated vertebral collapse and unrelated to radiotherapy.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Osteonecrosis
Spinal cord
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
Rheumatology
Older patients
Pathognomonic
Humans
Medicine
Female
Spinal Diseases
Vertebral clefts
Vertebral collapse
Mr images
medicine.symptom
business
Vertebral bone marrow
Collapse (medical)
Aged
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1297319X
- Volume :
- 75
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Joint Bone Spine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4184d6cac4bd1bbafca5c41b4f9ae6bb