Morphometric X-ray absorptiometry in the assessment of vertebral fractures in renal transplant patients

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 466-471

  Mazzaferro, Sandro ^a,b   Diacinti, Daniele ^a   Proietti, Emanuela ^a   Barresi, Giusi ^a   Baldinelli, Matteo ^a   Pisani, Daniela ^a   D'Erasmo, Emilio ^a   Pugliese, Francesco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bone mineral density; Dual energy X ray absorptiometry; Renal transplantation; Vertebral fractures; Vertebral morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARDIZATION; THORACIC SPINE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; BONE DENSITY; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 31544479055     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfi206     Document Type: Article

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