Compression fracture
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Compression fractures are the result of "crumbling or smashing of cancellous bone by forces acting parallel to the long axis of bone. It is applied particularly to vertebral body fractures Spinal fractures".
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- Fractures. compression - Information for patients from MedlinePlus (United States National Library of Medicine).