The association of proximal femur geometry with hip fracture risk

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 575-580

  Dinçel, V Ercan ^a   Şengelen, Meltem ^b   Sepici, Vesile ^c   Çavuşoǧlu, Turgay ^a   Sepici, Behçet ^a  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

DXA; Femoral neck width; Geometry; Hip axial length; Hip fracture risk; Osteoporosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE STRENGTH; BONE STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FEMUR TROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; GEOMETRY; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; BONE DENSITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMUR; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 50949124290     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.20680     Document Type: Article

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