Abstract
Magnetic resonance imaging has been increasingly used in recent years to screen patients with osteoporotic posttraumatic vertebral collapse. However, it is difficult to evaluate MRI findings of severe vertebral collapse. In this study, we reported the MRI findings of mild vertebral collapse only. Twenty-one fractures of eighteen patients were available for study and the average patient age was 72.2 years. We divided these cases into three types for MRI T1-weighted image intensity. There were 8 cases of cranial type, 5 of central type, 6 of whole type and 2 cases of other type. The vertebral collapse rate was advanced in the cases of cranial type from 0.85 to 0.7, central type from 0.75 to 0.76, and whole type from 0.8 to 0.78. We concluded that the cases of central type showed good results regarding kyphotic spinal deformity after trauma.
