A comparison of radiographic degeneration features of older Chinese women and older Italian Caucasian women with a focus on thoracic spine.

Background: Compared with Caucasians, East Asians have a lower incident of back pain, lower prevalence and severity of osteoporotic vertebral fracture and lumbar spine degeneration.

Aim: This study compares radiographic spine degeneration features of older Chinese women (as an example of East Asians) and older Italian women (as an example of Caucasians) with a focus on the thoracic spine.

Methods: From two population-based epidemiological studies conducted in Hong Kong, China and Rome, Italy, 297 pairs (mean age: 73.

Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue Is Increased in Postmenopausal Women With Postsurgical Hypoparathyroidism.

Context: Suppression of bone turnover, greater trabecular volume, and normal-high normal all-site bone mineral density (BMD) are hallmarks of postsurgical hypoparathyroidism (HypoPT). Impairment in the trabecular microarchitecture with possible higher risk of vertebral fractures (VF) in women with postmenopausal HypoPT has also been described. Currently, no data on bone marrow adipose tissue (BMAT) are available in HypoPT.

Conversion of osteoporotic vertebral fracture severity score to osteoporosis T-score equivalent status: a framework and a comparative study of Hong Kong Chinese and Rome Caucasian older women.

Unlabelled: We explored how the severity of radiological osteoporotic vertebral fracture (OVF) can be converted to the equivalent T-score values.

Introduction: To perform a study to define what portion of older community women with what severity of radiographic OVF correspond to what low T-score status.

Methods: There were age-matched 301 Italian community women and 301 Chinese community women (sub-group A, age, 73.

Lower Prevalence and Severity of Degenerative Changes in the Lumbar Spine in Elderly Hong Kong Chinese Compared With Age-Matched Italian Caucasian Women.

Study Design: Cross-sectional observational study.

Objective: The aim was to compare the prevalence and severity of radiographic lumbar spine degeneration between elderly Hong Kong Chinese and elderly Italian Caucasian women.

Summary Of Background Data: Rates of symptomatic low back pain and osteoporotic vertebral fracture have been shown to be lower in Asian and Chinese populations compared with Caucasians, but ethnic differences in spinal degeneration are less established.

Imaging technologies in the differential diagnosis and follow-up of brown tumor in primary hyperparathyroidism: Case report and review of the literature.

Brown tumors are osteolytic lesions associated with hyperparathyroidism (HPT). They may involve various skeletal segments, but rarely the cranio-facial bones. We report a case of a young boy with a swelling of the jaw secondary to a brown tumor presenting as the first manifestation of primary HPT (PHPT).

Diagnosis and grading of radiographic osteoporotic vertebral deformity by general radiologists after a brief self-learning period.

Background: The expanded semi-quantitative (eSQ) osteoporotic vertebral deformity (OVD) classification has minimal, mild, moderate, moderately-severe, severe, and collapsed grades with <20%, 20-25%, >25%-1/3, >1/3-40%, >40%-2/3, >2/3 vertebral height loss respectively. This study evaluates the performance of using this grading criterion by radiology readers who did not have former training in OVD assessment.

Methods: Spine radiographs of 44 elderly women with 278 normal appearing vertebrae and 65 OVDs were selected, with two senior readers agreed the reference reading.