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ArticleGlobal spine journal2026

Response to "Letter to the Editor Regarding "Streamlining the MRI-Derived Vertebral Bone Quality Score for Preoperative Osteoporosis and Osteopenia Screening".

Paul Köhli, Jennifer Shue, Marco D Burkhard, Alexander P Hughes

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Article in Global spine journal, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Paul KöhliDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7473-6553
Jennifer ShueDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA.
Marco D BurkhardDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1501-1952
Alexander P HughesDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7293-9672

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We thank the authors for their thoughtful and constructive comments on our simplified MRI-derived vertebral bone quality score using L1/L2 measurements VBQ

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PMID42775718
PMCPMC13601374

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