Assessment of bone health in children and adolescents with cancer: Promises and pitfalls of current techniques

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 198-207

  Leonard, Mary B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone mineral density; Children; Dual energy x ray absorptiometry; Osteoporosis; Quantitative computed tomography

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHOTREXATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT CANCER; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; BONE; BONE DEMINERALIZATION; BONE DENSITY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE GROWTH; BONE MINERAL; BONE MINERALIZATION; BONE REMODELING; BONE STRENGTH; BONE STRESS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICAL BONE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEALTH; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALNUTRITION; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SEX HORMONE DEFICIENCY; SHORT STATURE; TRABECULAR BONE;

ADOLESCENT; BONE DENSITY; CHILD; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0042343600     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mpo.10337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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