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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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of nuclear medicine technology
دوره 27 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1999