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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Lumbar spine MRI on the left with yellow arrowing pointing at the L3 vertebral compression fracture. On the right is an STIR image of the L3 vertebral compression fracture with hyperdense bone marrow changes representing acute vertebral compression fracture.