Does bone mineral density change in polycystic ovarian syndrome?
Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), is the most frequent endocrine disorder in reproductive age and PCOS has effects on bone metabolism. There is conflicting data on the effect of PCOS on bone metabolism.
Funda Dinc Elibol +1 more
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Comparison of Posterior Short-segment Pedicle Screw Fixation with or without Fusion in Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures [PDF]
Introduction: Treatment of unstable Thoracolumbar vertebra burst fractures has seen a paradigm shift from conservative to surgical modalities with either a short or long-segment posterior fixation with or without fusion. Aim: To assess the functional
Arvind Bharadwaj +2 more
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New Interpretation of Galileo\u2019s Arthritis and Blindness [PDF]
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) complained of several disorders during his life, the most important of which were chronic arthritic pains and bilateral blindness.
Barbieri, Cesare +7 more
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Resegmentation is an ancestral feature of the gnathostome vertebral skeleton [PDF]
© The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Criswell, K. E., & Gillis, J. A.
Criswell, Katharine E. +1 more
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An Epidemiological Overview of Spinal Trauma in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Introduction: The World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention indicates that by 2020, road traffic injuries will be a major killer, accounting for half a million deaths and 15 million disability-adjusted life years.
Ahmed Bakhsh +2 more
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The neck of Barosaurus was not only longer but also wider than those of Diplodocus and other diplodocines [PDF]
Barosaurus is a diplodocid sauropod from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the western United States, and is known for its very long neck. It is related to the sympatric Diplodocus, and often thought of as more or less identical except with a ...
Taylor, Michael P, Wedel, Mathew J.
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Biomechanical Tolerance of Whole Lumbar Spines in Straightened Posture Subjected to Axial Acceleration [PDF]
Quantification of biomechanical tolerance is necessary for injury prediction and protection of vehicular occupants. This study experimentally quantified lumbar spine axial tolerance during accelerative environments simulating a variety of military and ...
Baisden, Jamie L. +9 more
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Importance of microstructure of lumbar pedicle in screw placement
Background and objective: Any structural deviation of the pedicle may result in interference of the weight transmission mechanism and compression of neural structures.
Kunal Chawla +4 more
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This paper proposes a deep-learning-based image enhancement approach that can generate high-resolution micro-CT-like images from multidetector computed tomography (MDCT).
Dan Jin +5 more
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The morphology of xenarthrous vertebrae (Mammalia: Xenarthra) / [PDF]
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Gaudin, Timothy J. (Timothy James), 1966-
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