Kummell disease
MONDO:0003940Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names Kummell disease yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A disease that presents as vertebral osteonecrosis typically affecting a thoracic vertebra with compression deformity, intravertebral vacuum cleft, and exaggerated kyphosis weeks to months after a minor traumatic injury.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0003940), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
Other names
5 names
Resolves to: Kummell disease
- Also called
- avascular necrosis of a vertebral bodybony vertebral centrum osteonecrosisKummell's diseaseosteonecrosis of bony vertebral centrumtraumatic spondylopathy