Bone quality - The material and structural basis of bone strength and fragility

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 21, 2006, Pages

  Seeman, Ego ^a,c   Delmas, Pierre D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE FRAGILITY; BONE REMODELING; BONE STRENGTH; BONE STRUCTURE; CORTICAL BONE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BIOMECHANICS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE REMODELING; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL;

EID: 33646889773     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra053077     Document Type: Review

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