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Comparison of the femoral neck bone density, quantitative ultrasound and bone density of the heel between dominant and non-dominant side
- Source :
- European journal of radiology. 60(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- Our study was initiated to evaluate whether there are differences between the two sides, depending on hand dominance, in densitometry values and quantitative ultrasound parameters (QUS) of the lower limb. One hundred and six women and 44 men were involved. The hand dominance was determined by interview. The bone mineral density (BMD) of the left and the right femoral necks and the calcanei were measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). The QUS examination consisted of measuring the attenuation (BUA), the speed of the ultrasound (SOS) and quantitative ultrasound index (QUI) transversing the left and right calcanei. The density of the neck of femur of the non-dominant side did not differ from that of the dominant side. On the other hand, BMD, BUA and the QUI of the calcaneus were higher on the non-dominant side in both genders (p0.05 for each parameter). No similar differences were seen for the SOS values. Our study has confirmed the side-to-side differences of the calcaneus in both genders, lower values were found on the dominant side. No similar differences were seen on the femur. The AUC values seemed to be higher on the dominant side, however, these differences were not strictly significant. In the case of peripheral site (heel) measurements, the practical significance of our observations is that they raise the possibility of performing peripheral DXA and QUS examinations of the calcaneus on the dominant side of the patient according to handedness.
- Subjects :
- musculoskeletal diseases
Adult
Male
Heel
Bone density
Fractures, Bone
Absorptiometry, Photon
Sex Factors
Bone Density
Medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Femur
Ultrasonography, Interventional
Femoral neck
Aged
Bone mineral
business.industry
Femur Neck
Ultrasound
Reproducibility of Results
General Medicine
Anatomy
Middle Aged
musculoskeletal system
Postmenopause
Calcaneus
medicine.anatomical_structure
Cross-Sectional Studies
Premenopause
ROC Curve
Research Design
Area Under Curve
Osteoporosis
Female
business
Densitometry
Nuclear medicine
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0720048X
- Volume :
- 60
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European journal of radiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cfc692e50aa2928c096bbbf901c7a382