The thickness of human vertebral cortical bone and its changes in aging and osteoporosis: A histomorphometric analysis of the complete spinal column from thirty-seven autopsy specimens

Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-95

  Ritzel, Holger ^a   Amling, Michael ^a   Pösl, Martin ^a   Hahn, Michael ^a   Delling, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; OSTEOPOROSIS; STRESS FRACTURE; THORACIC SPINE; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUTOPSY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; PLASTIC EMBEDDING; STAINING AND LABELING; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0031018010     PISSN: 08840431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.1997.12.1.89     Document Type: Article

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