Modern radiation diagnosing the spine pathological fractures through osteoporosis

Abstract

The work demonstrates the results of examination of 162 patients with pathological compression and comminuted fractures of the spine associated with osteoporosis. Radiation methods of diagnosis were used as follows: radiography of the spine, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), computer tomography (CT) and multispiral computer tomography (MSCT). The characteristic types of vertebral body deformities are described depending on the presence or absence of the case history of the spine injury, as well as the sings of stable and unstable fractures revealed with CT and MSCT. The findings of DEXA as a method required for complex examination of patients with the pathology mentioned are analyzed.