Conventional computed tomography imaging and bone mineral density: Opportunistic screening or "Incidentaloporosis"?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 630-631

  Majumdar, Sumit R ^a   Leslie, William D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b St Boniface General Hos pital ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

BONE DENSITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OSTEOPOROSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL;

EID: 84876385501     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-158-8-201304160-00009     Document Type: Editorial

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