Quantitative Bone Ultrasound at Phalanges and Calcaneus in Osteoporotic Postmenopausal Women: Influence of Age and Measurement Site

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1039-1045

  Camozzi, Valentina ^a   De Terlizzi, Francesca ^b   Zangari, Monica ^a   Luisetto, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b IGEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Fracture risk; Osteoporosis; Postmenopause; Quantitative ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BONE; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; X RAY ANALYSIS;

FRACTURE RISK; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASONOGRAPHY; X-RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CALCANEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHALANX; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THORACIC SPINE; ULTRASOUND; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BONE DENSITY; CALCANEUS; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FINGER PHALANGES; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROC CURVE; SPINAL FRACTURES; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 34347209042     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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