Bone Abstracts

Study Design: Retrospective study.Purpose: To estimate the usefulness of bone scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the diagnosis of new fracture in osteoporotic vertebral fractures.Overview of Literature: The diagnosis of new fracture in osteoporotic vertebral fractures requires simple X-ray and supplementary studies.Methods: We analyzed 87 vertebrae in 44 patients, who diagnosed with osteoporotic ve...

The purpose of this study is to assess the correlation of trabecular bone score (TBS) to variable factors, i.e. sex, age, body size and BMD. Moreover, we want to find variables of correlation coefficient change with aging.We randomly selected 2,906 subjects (1726 female and 1180 male, age range 20’s to 70’s) from several hospitals in Korea. Participants who have abnormal Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) images or lumbar disease were exclu...