Lateral vertebral assessment: A valuable technique to detect clinically significant vertebral fractures

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1513-1518

  Binkley, Neil ^a,c   Krueger, D ^a   Gangnon, R ^a   Genant, H K ^b   Drezner, M K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Instant vertebral assessment; Lateral vertebral assessment; Osteoporosis; Radiography; Vertebral fracture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR SPINE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGIST; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THORACIC SPINE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 29044450704     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: 14332965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-005-1891-7     Document Type: Article

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