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Cortical Hand Bone Porosity and Its Association with Distal Radius Fracture in Middle Aged and Elderly Women

OBJECTIVE: Reduced bone mineral density (BMD), assessed by Dual Energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), is a well-known risk factor for fragility fracture. A large proportion of patients with fracture have only slightly reduced BMD. Assessment of other bone structure features than BMD may improve identif...

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Autores principales: Dhainaut, Alvilde, Hoff, Mari, Syversen, Unni, Haugeberg, Glenn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3700909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23844197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068405