Discordance in diagnosis of osteoporosis using spine and hip bone densitometry

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Soltani A
Tabari NK
Sadatsafavi M
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Larijani B

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Femoral neck may be the better site to be evaluated when measuring BMD

sergio toledo (24 October 2006) University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine,Brazil

As far as I know, femoral neck is the better site to be analyzed when hip bone mineral density (BMD) must be studied. Other hip bone subsites may be not so informative. Thus, instead of total hip BMD the authors might have used BMD data coming from femoral neck to compare with lumbar spine BMD findings in these cases.

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Discordance in diagnosis of osteoporosis using spine and hip bone densitometry

Femoral neck may be the better site to be evaluated when measuring BMD

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