Endocrine Abstracts

In the absence of fractures, making the diagnosis of osteoporosis from radiographs can be imprecise. As there are now effective bone preserving and bone enhancing therapies which reduce future fracture risk, identifying patients at risk before fractures occur is relevant, hence the importance of bone densitometry.The method that is most widely used currently is dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). This can be applied to axial and appendicular skeletal sites, uses very low r...