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Age- and sex-related regional compressive strength characteristics of human lumbar vertebrae in osteoporosis

OBJECTIVE: To obtain the compressive load bearing and energy absorption capacity of lumbar vertebrae of osteoporotic elderly for the everyday medical praxis in terms of the simple diagnostic data, like computed tomography (CT), densitometry, age, and sex. METHODS: Compressive test of 54 osteoporotic...

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Autores principales: Kurutz, Márta, Donáth, Judit, Gálos, Miklós, Varga, Péter, Fornet, Béla
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004543/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21197342