Locations of bone tissue at high risk of initial failure during compressive loading of the human vertebral body

Bone

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 733-739

  Eswaran, Senthil K ^a   Gupta, Atul ^a   Keaveny, Tony M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical bone; Failure location; Initial failure; Micromechanics; Trabecular bone; Vertebral body

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRACTURE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE AND BONES; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL FRACTURES; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 34548538003     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2007.05.017     Document Type: Article

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