Phalangeal osteosonogrammetry age-related changes and assessment of a Lebanese reference population

Bone

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1650-1654

  Maalouf, Ghassan ^a   Wehbe, Joseph ^a   Farah, Georges ^a   Sawan, Dany ^a   Tannous, Ziad ^a   Nehme, Alexandre ^a   Chidiac, Rita Maria ^a   Gannage Yared, Marie Helene ^b   Jalkh, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND   (Lebanon)

^b SAINT JOSEPH UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Phalanx; Ultrasonometry; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLIMACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENOPAUSE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHALANX; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; FINGER PHALANGES; HUMANS; LEBANON; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; REFERENCE VALUES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34249113558     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2006.02.066     Document Type: Article

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