Quantitative Ultrasound of the Calcaneus in Greek Women: Normative Data are Different From the Manufacturer's Normal Range

Journal of Clinical Densitometry

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 353-359

  Trovas, George ^a   Tsekoura, Memi ^a   Galanos, Antonios ^a   Dionyssiotis, Yannis ^a   Dontas, Ismini ^a   Lyritis, George ^a   Papaioanou, Nikos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Osteoporosis; Quantitative ultrasound; Reference data

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALCANEUS; DEVICE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BONE DENSITY; BONE REMODELING; CALCANEUS; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651222101     PISSN: 10946950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocd.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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