Association of Quality and Quantity of Bone Metastases and Computed Tomography Volumetric Bone Mineral Density With Prevalence of Vertebral Fractures in Breast Cancer Patients

vBMD measurements and the detection of metastases and their morphology from routine staging CT allow the discrimination of breast cancer with and without vertebral fractures. The simple prevalence of vertebral metastases is strongly associated with prevalent metastatic fractures.