Clinical: 70 y/o female with acute on chronic back pain.
Dx: Acute pedicle stress/insufficiency fractures at the L4 and L5 levels without spondylolisthesis. These are likely insufficiency fxs given age.
References:
- Parvataneni H, Nicholas S, McCance S. SPINE: 2004 – vol. 29, no. 2, pp. E19-E21.