Urinary Creatinine-Skeletal Muscle Mass Method: A Prediction Equation Based on Computerized Axial Tomography

Biomedical and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 185-190

  Wang, Zi Mian ^a,b   Sun, Yun Gao ^a   Heymsfield, Steven B ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; RADIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; URINE;

ADULT; CREATININE; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE VALUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030226467     PISSN: 08953988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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