Diagnostic challenges in osteoporosis: Indications for bone densitometry and establishing secondary causes

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 47, Issue JUNE, 2001, Pages 1244-1250

  Karsh, Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OSTEOPOROSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; BONE DENSITY; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OSTEOPOROSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0035378458     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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