Wahner, Heinz W

The evaluation of osteoporosis : dual energy x-ray absorptiometry in clinical practice / Heinz W Wahner, Ignac Fogelman ; with contribution from Peter Steiger, Eric von Stetten, and W. L Dunn - 2 reprinted - v, 296 p. : il. ; 25 x 19 cm. - Metabolic bone disease .

Metabolic bone disease and osteoporosis: relevant information for bone mineral measurements -- Bone mass and bone structure -- Instruments and measurement techniques -- Commercial instruments available for bone mineral measurements -- Instrument evaluation and routine quality control procedures -- Instruments using fan-beam geometry -- Measurement of bone mineral in the limbar spine: The ap spine scan -- Measurement of bone mineral in the vertebral body: the lateral spine scan -- Non-invasive measurement of bone mass and density in the proximal femur -- Dual energy X ray absorptiometry on appendicular bones -- Total body bone mineral and body composition by absorptiometry -- Bone mineral measurements in the growsing skeleton -- Clinical bone density Bone mineral measurements in secondary forms of Osteoporosis -- application of dual x-ray absorptiometry to densitometry in bones of small animals and specimens from human transiliac bone biopsies -- Quantitation of bone loss at sites of meal and plastic implants -- Vertebral morphometry -- Glossary -- Index --

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Enfermedades del sistema muscoloesquelético
Enfermedades de los huesos
Osteoporosis
Trastornos de origen metabólico
Medicina
Salud

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