Thoracic spine fractures

Discussion:

The difficulty here initially was differentiating acute from chronic thoracic fractures in a 74 year old female. The presence of fracture lines and adjacent soft tissue changes helped at T12. MRI was required to show evidence of acute injury at T4, T9 and L1 best seen on the sagittal STIR images.  

However these were treated conservatively.

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