Femoral shaft bowing with age: A digital radiological study of Anatolian Caucasian adults

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-32

  Karakaş, Hakki Muammer ^a   Harma, Ahmet ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aging; Bone; Femur morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE AGE; BONE BOWING; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR SHAFT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; OSTEOMETRY; SAMPLING; SEX DIFFERENCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WEIGHT BEARING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; BODY HEIGHT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TURKEY;

EID: 40849086469     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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