Integrated imaging approach to osteoporosis: State-of-the-art review and update

Radiographics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1343-1364

  Guglielmi, Giuseppe ^a,b   Muscarella, Silvana ^b   Bazzocchi, Alberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; BONE TUMOR; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMUR; HAND BONE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PATHOLOGY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPINE FRACTURE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AGING; BONE NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HAND BONES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052898612     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.315105712     Document Type: Review

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