Age-related changes in female femoral neck geometry: Implications for bone strength

Calcified Tissue International

Volumn 53, Issue 1 Supplement, 1993, Pages

  Beck, Thomas J ^a   Ruff, Christopher B ^a   Bissessur, Khem ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone strength; Female femoral neck; Structural geometry

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; BONE MASS; BONE MINERALIZATION; BONE STRENGTH; BONE STRUCTURE; FEMUR NECK; MENOPAUSE; OSTEOPENIA; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BONE DENSITY; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; OSTEOPOROSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0027260534     PISSN: 0171967X     EISSN: 14320827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01673401     Document Type: Article

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