Age at menarche and cortical bone geometry in premenopausal women

Bone

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 69-73

  Rauch, F ^a   Klein, K ^b   Allolio, B ^c   Schonau E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bone; Bone geometry; Menarche; Peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT); Puberty; Radius

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE STRUCTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENARCHE; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; ONSET AGE; PERIOSTEUM; PREMENOPAUSE; PUBERTY; RADIUS; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032995055     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S8756-3282(99)00104-0     Document Type: Article

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