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Quantitative ultrasound applied to metacarpal bone in infants

Aim. To provide bone status assessment in infancy using quantitative ultrasound (QUS) applied to second metacarpus. Methods. 103 healthy term infants and 3 patients with rickets, aged ≤ 12 months, underwent metacarpal QUS evaluation using QUS DBM Sonic Aurora IGEA (MO, Italy), which measures speed o...

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Autores principales: Savino, Francesco, Viola, Serena, Benetti, Stefania, Ceratto, Simone, Tarasco, Valentina, Lupica, Maria Maddalena, Cordero di Montezemolo, Luca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3757467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24010019
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.141