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Vertebral hemangiomas are a common incidental finding and are rarely symptomatic. They principally occur between T12 and L4 and have a characteristic appearance of orderly vertical striations of trabecular thickening and mildly increased uptake in the vertebral body.
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Simpson, S.B., Falk, G.L. (2023). Incidental Benign Skeletal Lesions: Vertebral Hemangiomas. 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_141
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