Fig. 5

Postoperative spine CT scan. There was potential translucency present at top and bottom of graft(L4/5 cage). There were vertebral compression fractures in both lower endplate and vertebral body of the L4 and upper endplate and vertebral body of the L5. The portion between the two white arrows is the transparent strip. The blue arrow indicates the normal cancellous bone manifestation of the vertebral body. The orange arrow indicates the “hardening”that occurs after a compressive fracture of the cancellous bone inside the vertebral body