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Discordance in diagnosis of osteoporosis using spine and hip bone densitometry

Alireza Moayyeri email, Akbar Soltani email, Nasibeh Khaleghnejad Tabari email, Mohsen Sadatsafavi email, Arash Hossein-neghad email and Bagher Larijani email

BMC Endocrine Disorders 2005, 5:3doi:10.1186/1472-6823-5-3

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 email

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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