ivory vertebral body CHORUS

Description: single or multiple very dense vertebra:
* metastases , myeloma
o sclerotic mets or treated lytic mets
o preservation of disc space and vertebral body size
* Paget's disease
o usually single vertebral body
o expanded body with thickened cortex and coarsened trabeculation
o disc space preserved
* lymphoma
o preservation of disc space and vertebral body size
* infection (low grade)eg. TB
o end plate destruction
o disc space narrowing
o paraspinal soft tissue mass
* hemangioma
* renal osteodystrophy
* osteosarcoma
* osteoporosis with collapse
* flourosis
* sickle cell disease
* osteopetrosis