The usefulness of quantitative ultrasound at the hand phalanges in the detection of the different types of nontraumatic fractures

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1545-1550

  Drozdzowska, Bogna ^a,c   Pluskiewicz, Wojciech ^a   De Terlizzi, Francesca ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b IGEA Biophysics Laboratory   (Italy)

^c Dept of Pathomorphology ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

Fractures; Phalanges; Quantitative ultrasound; Women

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; BONE; DISEASES; FRACTURE; MEDICAL IMAGING; METABOLISM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

MULTIPLE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND (QUS);

ULTRASONICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC DISORDER; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE FRACTURE; STANDING; ULTRASOUND; WRIST FRACTURE;

EID: 0345707659     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2003.08.009     Document Type: Article

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