Quantitative ultrasound applied to metacarpal bone in infants
Aim. To provide bone status assessment in infancy using quantitative ultrasound (QUS) applied to second metacarpus.Methods. 103 healthy term infants and 3 patients with rickets, aged ≤ 12 months, underwent metacarpal QUS evaluation using QUS DBM Sonic Aurora IGEA (MO, Italy), which measures speed of...
Main Authors: | Francesco Savino, Serena Viola, Stefania Benetti, Simone Ceratto, Valentina Tarasco, Maria Maddalena Lupica, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2013-08-01
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Series: | PeerJ |
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/141.pdf |
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