title: [Imaging of metabolic bone diseases].
abstract: Osteoporosis, a chronic progressive disease, is the most common metabolic bone disease and can affect almost the entire skeleton. Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disease characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue, with a consequent increase in bone fragility. The disease often does not become clinically apparent until a fracture occurs. However, the sensitivity, examination time, cost, and radiation exposure of the different imaging techniques differ greatly. Imaging options include conventional x-ray images, US, QUS, SPA, DPA, quantitative CT (QCT), densitometry, dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), MRI, QMR, SPECT and bone scanning.
authors.affiliation: Klinicki zavod za dijagnosticku i intervencijsku radiologiju, Klinicki bolnicki centar Zagreb, Kispatićeva 12, 10000 Zagreb.
authors.forename: Kristina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Potocki
mesh_terms: D015502:Absorptiometry, Photon; D001964:Bromhexine; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014463:Ultrasonography
chemical_list: D001964:Bromhexine