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 nontraumatic vertebral fracture, spontaneous hip fracture, and radial or hip fracture due to fall could all indicate disease.
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