Radiology of Osteoporosis

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 497-518

  Anil, Gopinathan ^a   Guglielmi, Giuseppe ^b,c   Peh, Wilfred C G ^d,e  

^a CHANGI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^c CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Conventional radiographs; Metabolic bone disorder; Osteopenia; Osteoporosis

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; VITAMIN D;

BONE BIOPSY; BONE DENSITY; BONE MALFORMATION; BONE MINERAL; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE REMODELING; BONE STRENGTH; BONE STRESS; BONE STRUCTURE; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CANCELLOUS BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL BONE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HIP DISEASE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; JUVENILE OSTEOPOROSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIC GIRDLE; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIMARY OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; SECONDARY OSTEOPOROSIS; SPINE FRACTURE; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; HIP; HIP INJURY; INJURY; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PELVIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE; SPINE INJURY;

BONE DENSITY; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HIP; HIP INJURIES; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PELVIS; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL INJURIES; SPINE;

EID: 77954162428     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2010.02.016     Document Type: Review

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