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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Radiol. 2015 Apr 1;45(4):593–605. doi: 10.1007/s00247-014-3210-y

Fig. 13.

Fig. 13

Trapezoidal L5. Diagram and lateral radiograph shows a shorter posterior wall than anterior of L5 (arrow), giving a trapezoidal vertebral body shape in a 7- year-old girl with mixed connective tissue disease. This does not represent a posterior crush fracture, but is a normal variation