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Degenerative Spine: Vertebral Insufficiency Fracture

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Vertebral insufficiency fractures are most commonly caused by osteoporosis, trauma, or underlying malignancy. Differentiating benign and malignant compression fractures can present a diagnostic dilemma. Bone SPECT/CT provides a comprehensive assessment of the metabolic and morphologic features of the collapsed vertebral body. This chapter discusses and illustrates the signs on bone SPECT/CT of benign vertebral compression fractures.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  2. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (MICA – IPPON), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

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  1. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Gopinath Gnanasegaran

  3. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland

    Klaus Strobel

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    Gopinath Gnanasegaran

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  3. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (MICA–IPPON), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

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Van den Wyngaert, T. (2023). Degenerative Spine: Vertebral Insufficiency Fracture. In: Van den Wyngaert, T., Gnanasegaran, G., Strobel, K. (eds) Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_101

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