Fig. 1.

An 80-year-old woman with MRI findings consistent with osteoporotic vertebral fractures. Sagittal T1-weighted (a), fat-suppressed T2-weighted, and gadolinium-enhanced subtraction images (c) show collapse of vertebrae T12 (continuous arrows) and T8 (dashed arrows), with edema (b) and gadolinium enhancement of anterior and posterior portions of the T12 vertebra (c), and the impression of some edema in adjacent discs (b). However, there is no clear involvement of two consecutive vertebrae. Moreover, the involvement of multiple levels and the configuration of the affected vertebrae strongly suggest osteoporotic vertebral fractures. This patient underwent CT-guided biopsy with spondylodiscitis in the differential diagnosis of the original clinical report, but was excluded from this study