Ability of ultrasound bone profile score (UBPS) to discriminate between fractured and not fractured osteoporotic women

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 11-12, 2002, Pages 1485-1489

  Di Stefano, Marco ^a   Isaia, Giovanni Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bone mineral density; Dual x ray absorptiometry; Osteoporosis; Quantitative ultrasound; Ultrasound bone profile score; Vertebral fracture

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BONE; CORRELATION METHODS;

OSTEOPOROSIS;

ULTRASONICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HEEL; HUMAN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; CALCANEUS; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FINGERS; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; SPINAL FRACTURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036865914     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(02)00655-5     Document Type: Article

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