tabecular bone score

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Indications

* women with diabetes mellitus, bone mineral density may be high, but fracture risk high[1]

Contraindications

  • not validated for monitoring therapy[1] Prodecure:
  • gray-level textural measure that uses 2- dimentional images already obtained during DEXA scan

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Geriatric Review Syllabus, 10th edition (GRS10) Harper GM, Lyons WL, Potter JF (eds) American Geriatrics Society, 2019