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

Osteoarthritis, Case 13

T
scores

Area
(cm2)

BMC
(g)

BMD
(g/cm2)

-1.5

12.5

11.9

0.949

-1.5

13.3

13.6

1.019

-2.4

15.4

14.1

0.910

-2.9

17.9

15.4

0.858

 

 

 

Check boxes to exclude

L1

L2

L3

L4

Consensus exclusions

L1

L2

L3

L4
Comments: Osteophytes are present in L1 and L2, causing focal structural anomalies and prompting vertebral body exclusion. Mild compression fractures are suspected at L1 and L2, but this determination is confounded by obliquity of the spine radiographs.

AP

Lateral
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