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Osteoporosis: prevention and diagnostic work-up
Daphne J Theodorou1, Stavroula J Theodorou, David J Sartoris
1School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, California, USA.
Hospital Medicine (London, England : 1998)
|August 22, 2002
Abstract:
Prevention of osteoporosis has assumed a paramount role in the decrease of osteoporotic fractures and the associated medical costs. A thorough diagnostic work-up of the patient with osteoporosis helps the physician exclude secondary causes of bone loss and acquire useful data for staging the disease, and contributes to planning the correct therapeutic management.