• DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(81)90526-2
Corpus ID: 29646037

BONE FORMATION AND RESORPTION AS THE DETERMINANTS OF TRABECULAR BONE VOLUME IN POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS

@article{Nordin1981BONEFA,
  title={BONE FORMATION AND RESORPTION AS THE DETERMINANTS OF TRABECULAR BONE VOLUME IN POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS},
  author={B. Nordin and R. Speed and J. Aaron and R. Crilly},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={1981},
  volume={318},
  pages={277-279}
}

B. Nordin, R. Speed, +1 author R. Crilly

Published 1981

Medicine

The Lancet

Histomorphometry has been applied to trabecular bone samples obtained post-mortem from young and old women without known bone disease and to bone biopsy specimens from patients with postmenopausal osteoporosis. Bone volume was significantly lower in the old than young controls and significantly lower again in the osteoporotics. The loss of bone with age associated with a rise in surface resorption but no change in forming surface, and the further loss in osteoporotics was associated with a… CONTINUE READING

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