Metastasis in vertebra mimicking acute compression fractures in a patient with osteoporosis: MRI findings

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 64-67

  Ho, Chun Sheng ^a   Choi, Wai Man ^b   Chen, Chia Yuen ^b   Chen, Wei Yu ^a   Chan, Wing P ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acute compressive fracture; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Metastasis; Osteoporosis; Vertebrae

Indexed keywords

BONE DENSITOMETRY; OSTEOPOROSIS; VERTEBRAL FRACTURES; VERTEBROPLASTY;

DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; TISSUE; TUMORS;

MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

GADOLINIUM;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE CANCER; BONE DENSITOMETRY; BONE MARROW; BONE NECROSIS; CALCANEUS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CANCER; COLOSTOMY; COMPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALLING; FORAMINOTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE CANCER; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SURGERY; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 11844283360     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2004.04.025     Document Type: Article

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