- Aka: pancake, silver dollar or coin-on-edge vertebra,
- Definition
- When a vertebral body has lost almost its entire height anteriorly and posteriorly, representing a very advanced compression fracture.
- MRI
- DDx
- Eosinophilic granuloma
- Osteomyelitis
- Neoplasms such as Ewing sarcoma, giant cell tumor, or lymphoma
- Aneurysmal bone cyst
- Advanced osteoporosis