Discrepancy in Results Between Spine and Hip Scans of a Woman with End Stage Renal Disease

Conditions and artifacts such as aortic calcifications, osteophytes, hip prostheses, and metallic objects can affect the results of dual X-ray absorptionometry scans of the spine and hip. Abdominal surgery often entails the use of metal sutures causing subtle artifacts near or over the lumbar spine resulting in inaccurate bone mineral density (BMD) measurements. We herein report a case of a woman whose spine BMD appeared normal while her hip BMD was