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

ABSTRACT:

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. Three readers from Italy and three readers from China were invited to evaluate these radiographs after reading five reference articles including one detailing eSQ criteria with illustrative examples. Before the

SUBMITTER: Wang YXJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7578449 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature