Table 4 Chance (%) of a pathologic vertebral fracture for different age categories.

	Cervical fracture: no history of malignancy	Cervical fracture: history of malignancy	Non‐cervical fracture: no history of malignancy	Non‐cervical fracture: history of malignancy
Age ⩽64 years, high energy trauma	0.02	1.2	0.8	36.3
Age >64 years, high energy trauma	0.05	3.7	2.5	64.9
Age ⩽64 years, low energy trauma	0.6	30.2	22.4	95.4
Age >64 years, low energy trauma	1.9	58.5	48.4	98.5

The numbers represent chances (percentages).