Quantitative ultrasound (qus) at the calcaneus and hand phalanges in polish healthy postmenopausal women

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 373-377

  Pluskiewicz, Wojciech ^a   Drozdzowska, Bogna ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Calcaneus; Normal; Phalanges; Quantitative ultrasound; Women

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BIODEGRADATION; BONE; GYNECOLOGY; ULTRASONICS;

SKELETEL CHANGES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CALCANEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHALANX; POLAND; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RIGIDITY; ULTRASOUND;

BODY CONSTITUTION; BONE AND BONES; CALCANEUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; POLAND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035036112     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(00)00340-9     Document Type: Article

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