Atlas of Focal Structral Defects Atlas for Clinical Densitometry Shool of Medicine and Public Health

Technical Issues with Image Quality, Case 10

T
scores

Area
(cm2)

BMC
(g)

BMD
(g/cm2)

-0.9

12.7

12.9

1.016

-0.2

12.4

14.5

1.171

0.4

14.0

17.4

1.242

0.1

17.9

21.6

1.207

 

 

 

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Consensus exclusions

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Comments: Altering the contrast during DXA analysis can make normal vertebrae appear to have focal structural anomalies. Plain films in this 42-year-old woman with premature menopause demonstrated that all vertebrae are normal.

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