Nano-structural, compositional and micro-architectural signs of cortical bone fragility at the superolateral femoral neck in elderly hip fracture patients vs. healthy aged controls

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2014, Pages 19-28

  Milovanovic, Petar ^a,c   Rakocevic, Zlatko ^b   Djonic, Danijela ^a   Zivkovic, Vladimir ^a   Hahn, Michael ^c   Nikolic, Slobodan ^a   Amling, Michael ^c   Busse, Bjoern ^c   Djuric, Marija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Atomic force microscopy; Bone fragility; Hierarchical structure; Hip fracture; Quantitative backscatter electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BONE FRAGILITY; BONE MINERAL; BONE MINERALIZATION; BONE STRUCTURE; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; OSTEOCYTE; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE BACKSCATTERED ELECTRON IMAGING; VERY ELDERLY; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DENSITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; METABOLISM; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PROCEDURES; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CALCIUM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BONE DENSITY; CALCIUM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRYSTALLIZATION; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; OSTEOCYTES; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84896513938     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: 18736815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

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