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Clinical Radiology

Volume 11, Issue 3, July 1960, Pages 166-174
Clinical Radiology

The radiological diagnosis of osteoporosis: A new approach*

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Summary

  • 1.

    A new procedure is described for the radiological assessment of osteoporosis.

  • 2.

    This method depends upon the measurement of cortex to shaft ratio in a femur and a metacarpal and the measurement of biconcavity in the spine.

  • 3.

    Arbitrary normal standards have been established in a control series of 125 adult outpatients.

  • 4.

    This method has been applied to about 150 patients suspected of metabolic bone disease, and abnormal results were obtained in eighty-seven (seventy-one women and sixteen men)

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Paper presented at a meeting of the Faculty of Radiologists in Glasgow, April 1959

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