PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Angelo Licata
TI  - Bone density vs bone quality: What’s a clinician to do?
AID  - 10.3949/ccjm.76a.08041
DP  - 2009 Jun 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 331--336
VI  - 76
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/76/6/331.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/76/6/331.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2009 Jun 01; 76
AB  - Studies of the epidemiology of osteoporosis and of drug treatments for it have challenged the concept that denser bone means stronger bone. Bone strength or resistance to fracture is not easily measured by routine densitometry, being a function of both density and quality.