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. 2022 Dec 27;16(6):934–946. doi: 10.31616/asj.2022.0441

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Fig. 1. — An 84-year-old female patient visited the emergency room complaining of back pain after lifting and carrying light objects indoors. (A–C) She went home after pain control because no obvious fractures were observed on the plain radiograph and computed tomography images except for old healed fractures and implants due to spinal surgery. (D) She revisited the hospital as an outpatient clinic and underwent a magnetic resonance image for persistent back pain. The sagittal image (fat-suppressed T2-weighted) shows bone marrow edema (yellow arrow) in the L2 vertebral body. (E) Further collapse was observed on the plain radiograph 1 month after injury. (F) Conservative treatment using a hard brace and teriparatide (daily injection) was performed, and no additional body height loss was observed on the plain radiograph at 2 months after injury.