Women's health issues and nuclear medicine, part III: women and osteoporosis.
This article is the third in a 4-part series on women's health issues and nuclear medicine. After reading this article the technologist should be able to: (a) state potential risk factors for osteoporosis; (b) describe osteoporosis and its natural history; and (c) identify methods for detecting normal and abnormal bone mineral density results.
Mann
A
A
Nuclear Cardiology Laboratory, Hartford Hospital, Connecticut 06102, USA. amann@harthosp.org
D015502:Absorptiometry, Photon; D000368:Aged; D015519:Bone Density; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D015663:Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D012307:Risk Factors