ivory vertebral body

• metastases , myeloma
  • sclerotic mets or treated lytic mets
  • preservation of disc space and vertebral body size
• Paget's disease
  • usually single vertebral body
  • expanded body with thickened cortex and coarsened trabeculation
  • disc space preserved
• lymphoma
  • preservation of disc space and vertebral body size
• infection (low grade)eg. TB
  • end plate destruction
  • disc space narrowing
  • paraspinal soft tissue mass
• hemangioma
• renal osteodystrophy
• osteosarcoma
• osteoporosis with collapse
• flourosis
• sickle cell disease
• osteopetrosis

© 2002, C.E. Kahn, Jr.
2002-04-18