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Endocrine reviews, 2001 Vitamin D deficiency is common in the elderly, especially in the housebound and in geriatric patients. The establishment of strict diagnostic criteria is hampered by differences in assay methods for 25-hydroxyvitamin D. The synthesis of vitamin D3 in the
P. Lips
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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 2019 Background Plate fixation is one of the standard surgical treatments for distal femoral fractures. There are few reports on the relationship between the screw position and bone union when fixing by the bridging plate (relative stability) method.
Masahiro Kiyono +11 more
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Cement injection and postoperative vertebral fractures during vertebroplasty
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 2019 Objective Vertebroplasty is the most widely used method for treating osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCF). During this procedure, bone cement is injected into the vertebral body.
Le Hu +6 more
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Alzheimer’s disease and its associated risk of bone fractures: a narrative review
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 BackgroundAlzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that is the major cause of dementia in the aged population. Recent researches indicate that patients with AD have a significantly increased fracture risk, but the pathological mechanisms ...
Bing-Na Zhou, Qian Zhang, Mei Li
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FRACTURES OF THE LONG BONES. [PDF]
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1883 [Read before the Surgical Section of the American Medical Association, at the meeting in Cleveland, June 6, 1883.] Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: In the limited time at my disposal I must greatly abbreviate the matter which I had prepared to offer on this occasion.
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FRACTURES OF THE NASAL BONES. [PDF]
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1898 Neither in the works on surgery, nor in the special works on the nose and throat is there much information about this subject, and yet any injury deflecting the nasal bones causes a deformity very apparent and disagreeable throughout life, besides often obstructing one of the nostrils.
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Obesity and Bone: A Complex Relationship
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 There is a large literature on the relationship between obesity and bone. What we can conclude from this review is that the increase in body weight causes an increase in BMD, both for a mechanical effect and for the greater amount of estrogens present in
G. Rinonapoli +6 more
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Ultrasound, 2020 The World Health Organisation estimates only 33% of the world's population has local access to diagnostic imaging. Doctors operating in austere locations in Canada and Australia are using point-of-care ultrasound to differentiate between bone injury and soft tissue injury.
Hammad Qadi +3 more
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New England Journal of Medicine, 1995 BACKGROUND Postmenopausal osteoporosis is a serious health problem, and additional treatments are needed. METHODS We studied the effects of oral alendronate, an aminobisphosphonate, on bone mineral density and the incidence of fractures and height loss
U. Liberman +17 more
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