It is generally agreed that trauma likely precipitates the actual formation of the Schmorl's node, but a possible congenital origin of a vertebral end-plate defect has also been suggested.
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Figure I: The patient injured her cervical spine subsequent to trauma, with MRI evidence of C7 vertebral body deformity, and Schmorl's node at the superior vertebral endplate of the C7 body.
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Home, library, topics, volume vii, s, schmorls node ... The Schmorls node causes an abnormal contour of the vertebral body endplate. It produces a concave defect with sharp margins. Causes of Schmorl's nodes include trauma, hyperparathyroidism, Scheuermanns disease, Scheuermanns disease, infection and neoplasm.
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At 1-year follow-up, MR images depicted a typical Schmorl's node; ie, a bony defect in the vertebral endplate without signal-intensity alterations. The patient's back pain gradually diminished, with rest alone, 2 months after the onset of symptoms.
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Diagnosis of acute SN or endplate fracture was made based on MR images that showed marrow edema in a nondeformed vertebral body or disk signal in an endplate SN defect with marrow edema, which imaging showed to develop ... Kornberg M. MRI diagnosis of traumatic Schmorl's node: a case report. Spine 1988;13:934-935[Medline]
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Schmorl's node is an intraspongious disc herniation which .... mental defects in the vertebral endplate, due to metabolic or neoplastic disease. ...
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[Archive] Schmorl node Spinal Disorders ... It is generally agreed that trauma likely precipitates the actual formation of the Schmorl's node, but a possible congenital origin of a vertebral end-plate defect has also been suggested.
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Main Entry: Schmorl's node; Pronunciation: 'shmorlz-; Function: noun; : a spinal defect characterized by protrusion of the nucleus pulposus into the spongiosaof a vertebra ; Schmorl, Christian Georg (1861–1932), German pathologist. Schmorl described the spinal defect now known as Schmorl's node in 1926.
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Beyond acute trauma, anterior wedge fractures are subject to differential diagnostic considerations that include congenital hemivertebra, infections, primary tumors, metastatic tumors, metabolic bone disease, Scheuermann disease, Kummell disease, and Schmorl nodes.
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Schmorl's node An irregular or hemispherical bone defect in the upper or lower margin of the body of a vertebra into which the nucleus pulposus of the ... Veterinary Dictionary: Schmorl's node...
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