Skeletal status in males aged 7-80 years assessed by quantitative ultrasound at the hand phalanges

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 295-300

  Drozdzowska, B ^a   Pluskiewicz, W ^b  

^a Department of Pathomorphology ^*  (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Male; Normative data; Phalanges; Quantitative ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUND; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VELOCITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BONE DENSITY; CHILD; FINGER PHALANGES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 2942677834     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-002-1355-2     Document Type: Article

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