Radiologic assessment of osteoporotic vertebral fractures: Diagnostic and prognostic implications

European Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1521-1532

  Link, Thomas M ^a   Guglielmi, Giuseppe ^b   Kuijk, Cornelis ^c   Adams, Judith E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Osteoporosis; Radiographs; Vertebral fractures

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; GADOLINIUM; PARATHYROID HORMONE[1-34]; RALOXIFENE; RISEDRONIC ACID;

BONE DENSITY; BONE DYSPLASIA; BONE INFECTION; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KYPHOPLASTY; METABOLIC BONE DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORPHOMETRICS; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMALACIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAGET BONE DISEASE; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RENAL OSTEODYSTROPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHEUERMANN DISEASE; SPINE DISEASE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 23344436243     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-005-2773-2     Document Type: Review

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