Detecting osteoporosis using dental radiographs: A comparison of four methods

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 127, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1734-1742

  Law, Anna N ^a,b   Bollen, Anne Marie ^a   Chen, Ssu Kuang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Univ of Washington Sch of Dent ^*

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; JAW DISEASE; MANDIBLE; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; RADIODENSITOMETRY; RADIOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; MANDIBLE; MANDIBULAR DISEASES; MICRORADIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, PANORAMIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030329347     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.1996.0134     Document Type: Article

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