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editorial
. 2020 Jun;10(6):1401–1407. doi: 10.21037/qims.2020.04.12

Table 1. The language used to describe potential OVF.

Normal
   Short vertebral height
Morphometric deformities
   A deformity without end-plate or cortical fractures
   Genant semi-quantitative (GSQ) tool
   Wedging
   Quantitative abnormality
Fractures
   Algorithm-Based Qualitative (ABQ)-positive lesions, mABQ-positive lesions
   Osteoporotic end-plate deformity/depression
   GSQ grade with end-plate and/or cortical damage (buckling)
   Qualitative abnormality

OVF, osteoporotic vertebral fracture.