Measurements of vertebral shape by radiographic morphometry: Sex differences and relationships with vertebral level and lumbar lordosis

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 380-384

  Cheng, X G ^a,c   Sun, Y ^a   Boonen, S ^a   Nicholson, P H F ^a   Brys, P ^a   Dequeker, J ^a   Felsenberg, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lumbar lordosis angle; Osteoporosis; Vertebral morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX; VERTEBRA;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPINE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0031844993     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002560050402     Document Type: Article

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