CONTINUING EDUCATION Women’s Health Issues and Nuclear Medicine, Part III: Women and Osteoporosis
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Objective: 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.
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