Diagnosis of osteoporosis: Visual assessment on conventional versus digital radiographs

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1815-1822

  Wagner, Sabine ^a   Stäbler, Axel ^b   Sittek, Harald ^a   Bonel, Harald ^c   Laeverenz, Gerlinde ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Baur Melnyk, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Orthopadische Klinik Munchen Harlaching   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Detection rate; Diagnostic accuracy; Digital conventional radiography; DXA; Osteopenia; Osteoporosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VISION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE DENSITY; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOPOROSIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 29044438092     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: 14332965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-005-1937-x     Document Type: Article

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