Hill S C, Parker C C, Brady R O, Barton N W
Diagnostic Radiology Department, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.
J Comput Assist Tomogr. 1993 Sep-Oct;17(5):806-9. doi: 10.1097/00004728-199309000-00026.
Vertebra plana and multiple platyspondyly are complications of aggressive Gaucher disease. Magnetic resonance imaging readily identifies vertebra plana and secondary spinal cord compression. We present a case of a 2-year-old boy with clinically aggressive Type 1 Gaucher disease in whom MRI showed partial reconstitution of the height of a collapsed lumbar vertebral body after 16 months of enzyme replacement therapy.