Osteoporosis changes the amount of vertebral trabecular bone at risk of fracture but not the vertebral load distribution

Spine

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2001, Pages 1555-1560

  Homminga, Jasper ^a,b   Weinans, Harrie ^b   Gowin, Wolfgang ^c   Felsenberg, Dieter ^c   Huiskes, Rik ^a,d,e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Failure risk; Finite element analysis; Fracture risk; Load distribution; Lumbar spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE STRENGTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MODEL; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; SPINAL FRACTURES; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0035879233     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200107150-00010     Document Type: Article

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