Reduced trabecular bone mineral density and cortical thickness accompanied by increased outer bone circumference in metacarpal bone of rheumatoid arthritis patients: A cross-sectional study

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Aeberli, Daniel ^a   Eser, Prisca ^a   Bonel, Harald ^a   Widmer, Jolanda ^a   Caliezi, Gion ^a   Varisco, Pierre Alain ^a   Möller, Burkhard ^a   Villiger, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITOMETRY; BONE DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIPHYSIS; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; METACARPAL BONE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERIPHERAL QUANTITATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIUS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; THICKNESS; TIBIA; TRABECULAR BONE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BONE DENSITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPIPHYSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; METACARPAL BONES; MIDDLE AGED; RADIUS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIBIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79959909975     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar3056     Document Type: Article

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