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Osteopenia in children: CT assessment
- Source :
- Radiology. 198:781-784
- Publication Year :
- 1996
- Publisher :
- Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), 1996.
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Abstract
- To assess the value of computed tomographic (CT) measurements of cortical bone in children with osteopenia.The area and density of cortical bone in the midshaft of the femur were measured with CT in 37 children with osteopenia. Twenty had osteoporosis in one leg, nine had osteogenesis imperfecta (IO), and eight had vitamin D-resistant rickets. Comparisons were made between the CT measurements of the normal and abnormal extremities and between patients with OI or rickets and a group of 17 healthy, matched children.Sex, age, height, and weight did not influence cortical bone density; values were similar for the 17 control subjects. Children with osteoporosis and IO had reduced bone area but normal bone density. Compared with control subjects, patients with rickets had similar bone area but reduced bone density (869 mg/cm3 K2HPO4 +/- 79 [standard deviation] vs 1,132 mg/cm3 K2HPO4 +/- 41).CT measurements of area and density of cortical bone aided the differentiation of the various disorders that cause osteopenia in children.
- Subjects :
- Male
Adolescent
Bone disease
Osteoporosis
Dentistry
Rickets
Diagnosis, Differential
Bone Density
Humans
Medicine
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Femur
Child
Hypophosphatemia, Familial
business.industry
Osteogenesis Imperfecta
medicine.disease
Osteochondrodysplasia
Osteopenia
Bone Diseases, Metabolic
medicine.anatomical_structure
Osteogenesis imperfecta
Child, Preschool
Female
Cortical bone
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
business
Nuclear medicine
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15271315 and 00338419
- Volume :
- 198
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Radiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ddc41706b6f84736c8c01000c829617e