A novel MRI-based score assessing trabecular bone quality to predict vertebral compression fractures in patients with spinal metastasis

As a measure of bone quality, the novel VBQ score significantly predicted the occurrence of new VCFs in patients with spinal metastases independent of the SINS. This suggests that baseline bone quality is a crucial factor that requires assessment when evaluating these patients' conditions and that the VBQ score is a novel and simple MRI-based measure to accomplish this.