The ability of quantitative ultrasound at the calcaneus to identify postmenopausal women with different types of nontraumatic fractures

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 11-12, 2002, Pages 1491-1497

  Drozdzowska, Bogna ^a   Pluskiewicz, Wojciech ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Calcaneus; Fractures; Quantitative ultrasound; Women

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; HEALTH CARE;

NONTRAUMATIC FRACTURES;

ULTRASONICS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE FRACTURE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CALCANEUS; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RIB FRACTURE; RISK; SPINE FRACTURE; ULTRASOUND; VELOCITY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; WRIST FRACTURE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCANEUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL FRACTURES; WRIST INJURIES;

EID: 0036865940     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(02)00619-1     Document Type: Article

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