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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 15 Of benign and malignant vertebral compression fractures of the MRI features of Authors: Yang Yu, Dusong Lin, Cheng Nian-Hua [Keywords:] tumor; spinal fractures; osteoporosis; magnetic resonance imaging; compression fracture Vertebral compression fractures caused by many reasons, usually vertebral metastases, vertebral compression fractures caused by malignant tumor known as malignant compression fractures, the age-related osteoporosis, compression fractures caused by trauma as a benign compression fractures. Met the clinical differential diagnosis is often difficult circumstances, especially in elderly patients when there is no clear history of malignancy. To further enhance the benign and malignant vertebral compression fractures qualitative diagnostic accuracy of the collection in our hospital in April 2006 and 2007 followed up for five menstrual clinical or surgical pathology confirmed 49 cases of vertebral compression fractures, through analysis of their MRI performance, summarized characteristics of the respective MRI signs of more, and different imaging sequences in the display explained the characteristics of vertebral lesions. 1 Materials and methods 1.1 General Information To collect or surgery followed up by clinical pathology confirmed 24 cases of spinal metastatic tumors, including 19 males and 5 females, aged 35 to 82 years, mean 63 years; of these 8 cases of lung cancer, prostate cancer, 4 cases, kidney, liver, , all three cases of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, 1 case of breast cancer, thyroid cancer, larynx in 1 case. Have a clear history of acute trauma caused by vertebral compression fractures in 13 cases, including 10 males and 3 females, aged 18 to 67 years, with an average of 41 years. The merger of senile osteoporosis vertebral compression fractures in 12 cases, of which 6 were male and 6 females, aged 50 to 86 years, mean 72 years, have X-ray, pathology, or followed up clear. 1.2 Methods Use SIEMENS Magnetom Sym