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Degenerative Spine Disease: Kyphosis

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After a vertebral compression fracture, kyphoplasty is increasingly used to stabilize the fracture, reduce pain, restore the vertebral body height, and avoid subsequent morbidity. Bone SPECT/CT helps determine the culprit vertebra and confirm the recent nature of the compression fracture. After kyphoplasty, CT contributes to assessing complications in the treated and adjacent vertebral level, including PMMA-cement leakage or loosening and secondary vertebral fractures. In this chapter, the bone SPECT/CT findings are discussed in a patient with recurrent pain 6 years after kyphoplasty for a traumatic vertebral compression fracture.

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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. Antwerp University Hospital, Wirijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

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Van den Wyngaert, T. (2023). Degenerative Spine Disease: Kyphosis. 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_95

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