[Spinal cord compression due to benign osteoporotic vertebral fracture].
BACKGROUND
A neurologic compromise associated with vertebral fractures is generally due to a malignancy causes. Therefore, an osteoporotic vertebral fracture can sometimes cause neurologic complications.


OBJECTIVE
Report a case of neurologic compromise associated with osteoporotic vertebral fractures.


METHODS
A-62-year-old man suffered from rheumatoid arthritis since 1985, presented a cervical pain associated with quadriparesia secondary to a C5 osteoporotic vertebral fractures.


CONCLUSIONS
Osteonecrosis may be the cause of neurologic compromise associated with osteoporotic vertebral fractures.
Kochbati
Samir
S
Service de médecine interne, Hôpital Habib Thameur, Tunis, Tunisie.
Daoud
Lilia
L
Zouaoui
W
W
Ktari
Sonia
S
Boussema
Fatma
F
Daghfous
Mohamed H
MH
Rokbani
Lilia
L
D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010020:Osteonecrosis / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000209:etiology; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology*; D016103:Spinal Fractures / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology