(HealthDay News) – In patients with suspected vertebral compression fractures, the addition of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reduces the rate of misdiagnosis of acute lesions and hidden ...

A vertebral compression fracture (VCF) is a break in an individual ... has a VCF due to a high impact injury, they will order MRI and CT scans as standard. They will also carry out a neurological ...

It is possible for spinal cord damage to occur without fracture ... compression of the spinal cord (see the interactive graphic, available at NEJM.org). A parasagittal view of a T 2-weighted MRI ...

An MRI showed a compression fracture near the elbow, trainer Mark O'Neal said. Prior, O'Neal and Cubs manager Dusty Baker would not speculate how long Prior would be out. "It could have been a lot ...

Compression fractures can be seen on x-ray, CT scan or MRI. Pain medication can help during the healing phase and there is a procedure called a kyphoplasty where a type of bone cement can be ...

Detailed information about the distribution and grade of the stress ... 13 of these were stress fractures with a low-signal-intensity fracture line identifiable on MRI. In 51 bones only acute ...