Bone Abstracts

Iisn’t uncommon to encounter patients with both a fragility fracture and only a slightly low BMD value or even normal one. Currently the DXA technology can assess information on trabecular microstructural texture supplementing the standard BMD measurement, using a new method: the trabecular bone score (TBS). In order to check TBS, BMD and their combination to discriminate patients with vertebral fracture, we scanned 946 subjects. The cohort was stratified using the WHO di...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate bone mass and bone microarchitectural texture as assessed by trabecular bone score (TBS) modification at spine during childhood growth in girls.The study group was composed of 415 healthy girls aged between 2 and 17 years old. Height, weight and BMI Z-scores were evaluated and compared to The WHO Child Growth Standards. Pubertal stage was evaluated using Tanner score. The areal BMD (aBMD) was assessed...

Children bone knowledge is relatively sparse. This is especially true for infant and for bone microarchitecture data. We have investigated, in this study, the age-related modifications of spine microarchitectural texture, as assessed by TBS, on male and female infants during their two first years of life.The study group was composed of 143 and 109 healthy female and male infants aged between 0 and 2 years. Height and weight Z-scores were signifi...