Bone's material and structural strength

Current Opinion in Orthopaedics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 494-498

  Seeman, Ego ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bone quality; Material and structural strength

Indexed keywords

AGING; BONE DENSITY; BONE FRAGILITY; BONE GROWTH; BONE MASS; BONE REMODELING; BONE STRENGTH; BONE STRESS; BONE STRUCTURE; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 34547879235     PISSN: 10419918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCO.0b013e3282a9c162     Document Type: Review

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