Bone mineral density of human female cervical and lumbar spines from quantitative computed tomography

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 73-76

  Yoganandan, Narayan ^a,b   Pintar, Frank A ^a   Stemper, Brian D ^a   Baisden, Jamie L ^a   Aktay, Recai ^a,b   Shender, Barry S ^c   Paskoff, Glenn ^c  

^a CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone mineral density; Cervical spine; Human subjects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORACIC SPINE; TRABECULAR BONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE DENSITY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644813727     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000192684.12046.93     Document Type: Article

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