RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Bone density vs bone quality: What’s a clinician to do?
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 331
OP 336
DO 10.3949/ccjm.76a.08041
VO 76
IS 6
A1 Licata, Angelo
YR 2009
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/76/6/331.abstract
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.