Is ultrasound of bone relevant for corticosteroid-treated patients? A comparative study with bone densitometry measured by DEXA

Joint Bone Spine

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 46-51

  Oliveri, Beatriz ^a,b   Di Gregorio, Silvana ^a,b   Parisi, Muriel Solange ^a,b   Solís, Fabiana ^a,b   Mautalen, Carlos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Ctro de Osteopatias Medicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Osteoporosis; Ultrasound; X ray densitometry

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISONE;

ACHILLES REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; LUMBAR SPINE; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PARAMETER; SCORING SYSTEM; SKELETON; SOUND INTENSITY; ULTRASOUND; VERTEBRA; X RAY DENSITOMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; CALCANEUS; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; PREDNISONE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037298991     PISSN: 1297319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1297-319X(02)00010-6     Document Type: Article

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