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[Diagnosis of osteoporotic fracture]
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tamana Central Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan.
Abstract:
The concept and terminology for bone fractures is now in some confusion between two academic fields, one of osteoporosis and the other of orthopedic fracture treatment, concerning the treatment of osteoporosis and the prevention of fragility fractures. In the former field, the terms of "incident or prevalent" fracture are commonly used ; by contrast, bone fracture simply means "fresh" fracture in the latter. Used to be based of X-ray films, diagnosis of osteoporotic fracture are now changing to depend on MRI, because its sensitivity and specificity of detecting fresh fracture of vertebral body is far better than other methods.
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