Gamuts

Lytic vertebral lesion

A compression fracture is a collapse of a vertebra. It may be due to trauma or due to a weakening of the vertebra (compare with burst fracture). [Source: Wikipedia ]

May Be Caused by
 Common
Chordoma
Fracture
Hemangioma
Insufficiency fracture of sacrum
Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Metastasis
Myeloma
Notochordal remnant
Paget disease of bone
Plasmacytoma
Rheumatoid arthritis
Schmorl node
Spondylodiskitis
 Uncommon
Aneurysmal bone cyst
Brown tumor of hyperparathyroidism
Chondroid lesion
Chondrosarcoma
Diastematomyelia
Ewing sarcoma
Fibrosarcoma
Fibrous dysplasia
Giant cell tumor
Gout
Hemangioendothelioma
Hemangiopericytoma
Hydatid disease
Kümmell disease
Lymphoma
Malignant fibrous histiocytoma
Meningioma
Meningocele
Neurofibroma
Nonossifying fibroma
Osteoblastoma
Osteoid osteoma
Osteolytic osteosarcoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma

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