High morbid-mortability and reduced level of osteoporosis diagnosis among elderly people who had hip fractures in São Paulo City [PDF]
, 2008 OBJECTIVE: To know the morbid-mortality following an osteoporotic hip fracture in elderly patients living in São Paulo. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This study evaluated prospectively all patient over 60 years admitted in 2 school-hospitals in the city of São ...
Adachi JD +67 more
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FRAX TM: building an idea to Brazil [PDF]
, 2009 Genetic and racial background, body composition, bone mineral density (BMD), diet, physical activity and life style help to explain the wide difference observed in the world prevalence and incidence of osteoporosis.
Borba, Victoria Zeghbi Cochenski [UNIFESP] +3 more
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Panoramic radiograph : auxiliary tool in the diagnosis of osteoporosis [PDF]
, 2008 A osteoporose é considerada um problema de saúde pública pela Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS). A identificação de indivíduos com baixa densidade mineral óssea e alto risco para fratura associada à osteoporose e o estabelecimento de estratégias ...
Figueiredo, Paulo Tadeu de Souza +4 more
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Intramedullary fixation of femur fractures in children and adolescents with flexible rods [PDF]
, 2011 Objective: to evaluate the surgical treatment results using intramedullary retrograde Ender nails in isolated unilateral femur fractures. Methods: the authors performed a retrospective study of 31 patients (32 femurs), 22 (71%) males and 9 (29%) females ...
Aoyagui, Alexandre Yoiti +6 more
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Fisiopatologia da osteoporose involutiva [PDF]
, 1999 The decrease in bone mineral density (BMD) with age is a universal phenomenon that affects all races and cultures; non-pathological by itself but it is the background to development of osteoporosis (OP). In 1941, Albright described the postmenopausal OP,
Lazaretti-Castro, Marise +1 more
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, 2013 O objeto começa definindo a osteoporose como uma enfermidade crônica, multifatorial e sistêmica que resulta em reduzida massa óssea e perda da microarquitetura mineral, classificando-a em primária e secundária e ressalta a importância da osteoporose pós ...
Reibnitz Júnior, Calvino +2 more
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Quantitative ultrasound of the calcaneus, bone densitometry and vertebral morphometry in men over the age of 60 years [PDF]
, 2012 Objetivos: Comparar a ultrassonometria do calcâneo com a densitometria óssea na avaliação de fraturas vertebrais morfométricas em homens acima de 60 anos.
Barra, Filipe Ramos +4 more
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Femoral shaft fractures in children and adolescents [PDF]
, 2007 Seventy one patients below the age of 16, with 72 shaft femur fractures occurred between January 1995 and December 1998, were evaluated. The purpose of the study was to understand the descriptive aspects of the fractures and appraise the employed ...
Coelho, Luís Felipe Albeny +5 more
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Correlação entre ultrassonometria quantitativa de calcâneo e densitometria óssea duo-energética de coluna e fêmur na avaliação óssea [PDF]
, 1999 The dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) is the most commonly used technique for bone mass density (DMO), although the quantitative calcaneus bone ultrasonometry (USQ) shows good results as a predictor for fracture risk.
Brandão, Cynthia +4 more
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2008 official positions of the Brazilian Society for Clinical Densitometry - SBDens [PDF]
, 2009 With the evolution of bone densitometry, differences in technologies, acquisition techniques, reference databases, reporting methods, diagnostic criteria and terminology have developed and the International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD ...
Albergaria, Ben-Hur +8 more
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