Hip fracture discrimination by the Achilles Insight QUS imaging device

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-62

  Damilakis, John ^a   Papadokostakis, George ^a   Perisinakis, Kostas ^a   Maris, Thomas G ^a   Karantanas, Apostolos H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

DXA; Hip fracture; QUS

Indexed keywords

BONE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; ULTRASONICS;

DXA SCANNER; HIP FRACTURE; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND (QUS); SPEED OF SOUND (SOS); STIFFNESS INDEX (SI);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; HEEL; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34250167898     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2007.03.023     Document Type: Article

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