Table 1: Cases of Kümmell’s disease reported since 1950.

Author Age Sex Level Mechanism Treatment Risk Factors
Steel, 1951 [5] 23y M T10 Spine hyperflexion Bracing None
Steel, 1951 [5] 62y M T8 Direct injury Bracing None
Brower et al. 1981 [9] 71y M T12 Fall from his own height Unknown Osteopenia, alcoholism
Hermann et al. 1984 [10] 45y F L1 Fall from height/direct injury Unknown Gaucher Type 1
Van Eenenaam, et al. 1993 [11] 75y M T11 Heavy-weight lifting Unknown Steroids, temporal arteritis
Young et al. 2002 [2] 72y M L4 Shoveling snow Subtotal corpectomy/ autologous grafting Diabetes
Osterhouse, et al. 2002 [12] 79y M L2 Indirect injury Conservative Steroids
Kapoor et al. 2004 [13] 71y F L3 Fall from a height Posterior stabilization None
Maheshwari et al. 2004 [14] 62y F L2, L3 Fall in the bathroom Unknown Osteopenia, diabetes
Swartz, et al. 2008 [3] 60y M T9, T10 Minor fall T9, T10 corpectomies/T8–11 anterior and posterior fusion None
Ma et al. 2009 [15] 75y F T12 Trivial fall T12 vertebroplasty Diabetes
I. van der Schaaf, et al. 2009 [16] 87y F L1 Minor trauma L1 vertebroplasty None
Matzaroglou et al. 2010 [17] 31y M L1 Stress fracture L1 kyphoplasty None
Fabbriciani et al. 2010 [18] 81y F L1 Spinal trauma Teriparatide Osteoporosis