Young Neurosurgeons and Rapid Fire Abstracts-Novel MRI-based Score Assessing Trabecular Bone Quality To Predict Compression Fractures In Metastatic Spine Patients

Novel MRI-based Score Assessing Trabecular Bone Quality To Predict Compression Fractures In Metastatic Spine Patients

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The video presents a new score called the VBQ score, which stands for vertebral bone quality, that uses MRI images to predict potential compression fractures in patients with spinal metastases. The video explains that compression fractures are painful and debilitating outcomes for these patients, and being able to predict and prevent them is important. The VBQ score measures the median signal intensities of the vertebral bodies on a T1 sagittal lumbar MRI and compares it to the CSF signal at L3 to calculate the score. The study found that the VBQ score outperformed the existing Spinal Instability Neoplastic Score (SINS) in predicting fractures, with a combined VBQ and SINS score reaching a predictive validity of 89%. The video concludes by discussing future plans to validate the VBQ score in other patient cohorts and conduct a prospective study.

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Andy Schilling

Keywords

VBQ score

vertebral bone quality

compression fractures

spinal metastases

MRI images