Trabecular bone density of male human cervical and lumbar vertebrae

Bone

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 336-344

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

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Asymptomatic subjects; Bone mineral density; Low back vertebra; Neck vertebra; QCT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE STRUCTURE; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; NECK; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPINE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE DENSITY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33744901687     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2006.01.160     Document Type: Article

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