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Vertebral Lesions: Imaging

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Vertebral Lesions

Part of the book series: New Procedures in Spinal Interventional Neuroradiology ((NPSIN))

Abstract

A wide variety of lesions can be found in the osseous spine. These lesions can be solitary or multiple with a benign or malignant aetiology. Metastatic bone disease usually presents as multiple vertebral body lesions and is the most common vertebral tumour. In a clear clinical context, the diagnosis can be easily made. However, in case of an isolated spine lesion, making a diagnosis is much more challenging. In this chapter we discuss the important clinical and imaging parameters to determine the correct diagnosis or narrow down the differential diagnosis. These parameters include age of the patient, clinical history, number of lesions, location of the lesion in the vertebra, lesion morphology and imaging features. Furthermore we give an overview of general and imaging features of the most common primary and secondary vertebral lesions.

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  1. Department of Radiology, University Hospital Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, 2650, Edegem, Belgium

    Simon Nicolay, Johan W. Van Goethem, Luc van den Hauwe & Paul M. Parizel

  2. Department of Radiology, AZ Nikolaas, Moerlandstraat 1, 9100, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium

    Johan W. Van Goethem

  3. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Pia C. Maly Sundgren

  4. Center for Medical Imaging and Physiology, Skåne University Hospital, 221 85, Lund, Sweden

    Pia C. Maly Sundgren

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Nicolay, S., Van Goethem, J.W., van den Hauwe, L., Parizel, P.M., Maly Sundgren, P.C. (2017). Vertebral Lesions: Imaging. In: Manfrè, L. (eds) Vertebral Lesions. New Procedures in Spinal Interventional Neuroradiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52634-8_1

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