Performance of Five Phalangeal QUS Parameters in the Evaluation of Gonadal-Status, Age and Vertebral Fracture Risk Compared with DXA

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 537-544

  Albanese, Carlina V ^a   Cepollaro, Chiara ^b   de Terlizzi, Francesca ^c   Brandi, Maria Luisa ^b   Passariello, Roberto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c IGEA Biophysics Laboratory   (Italy)

Author keywords

DXA; Osteoporosis; QUS; Risk factors; Vertebral fractures

Indexed keywords

DXA; OSTEOPOROSIS; QUS; RISK FACTORS; VERTEBRAL FRACTURES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BONE; OPERATING ROOMS; ULTRASONICS;

FRACTURE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; GONAD FUNCTION; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; ULTRASOUND; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BONE DENSITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINGER PHALANGES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; RISK; ROC CURVE; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 62849108209     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.09.027     Document Type: Article

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