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It has been reported that metacarpal morphometry does not correlate with iliac crest histomorphometry in patients with hip fractures. Such disagreement led us to study the correlation between both types of measurements on 35 patients who had suffered hip fracture. We observed a significant correlation between metacarpal morphometry and iliac crest cortical width (p<0.001), and to a lesser degree with the trabecular bone volume (p<0.01). The same was also true if we assessed separately the patients with cervical or trochanteric hip fractures.
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Hernandez, E.R., Gomez-Castresana, F., Villa, L.F. et al. The measurement of osteoporosis in clinical practice. Clin Rheumatol 10, 308–310 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02208696
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