Case history
Case history #1
A 70-year-old woman presents to the emergency department after falling while getting out of bed. She sustained an intertrochanteric fracture of the right hip. Preoperative chest x-ray reveals that she had existing asymptomatic vertebral fractures before her fall.
Case history #2
A 70-year-old man, 6 months after renal transplantation and on corticosteroid treatment, presents with severe back pain. X-ray evaluation of the thoracic and lumbar spine shows multiple vertebral compression fractures.
Other presentations
Asymptomatic vertebral fracture, spinal kyphosis (e.g., dowager's hump), back pain due to non-traumatic vertebral fracture, spontaneous hip fracture, and radial or hip fracture due to fall could all indicate disease.
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