Quantitative ultrasound at the phalanxes discriminates osteoporotic women with vertebral but not with hip fracture

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 357-361

  Gnudi, Saverio ^a   Ripamonti, Claudio ^a  

^a RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bone mass; Bone mineral density; Densitometry; Fragility fracture; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BONE; FRACTURE; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; MINERALS;

HIP FRACTURE; VERTEBRAL FRACTURE;

ULTRASONICS;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHALANX; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SPINE; SPINE FRACTURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE DENSITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FINGERS; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 1842611871     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2003.11.015     Document Type: Article

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