Bone health assessment of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a comparison between DXA and bonexpert
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Introduction Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) affects bone mineral density (BMD) due to chronic inflammation, glucocorticoid treatment and immobilization. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is most widely used to determine BMD. BoneXpert is a new, feasible and reproducible method for automatic determination of cortical BMD on hand radiographs. Moreover radiation exposure is low and in low-risk peripheral areas.
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