TY - BOOK AU - Bonnick,Sydney Lou TI - Bone densitometry in clinical practice: application and interpretation T2 - Current clinical practice SN - 9781603274982 (hbk. : alk. paper) KW - Bone diseases KW - diagnosis KW - Osteoporosis N1 - CD-ROM contains a precision calculator, a statistical confidence calculator for measured change in BMD, the Black Fracture Index, a patient risk factor questionnaire, and a CME review; Densitometry techniques -- Skeletal anatomy in densitometry -- Statistical overview for the non-statistician densitometrist -- Quality control -- Radiation safety in x-ray densitometry -- Bone density data among technologies and manufacturers -- Selecting patients for bone mass measurements : clinical guidelines -- Selecting patients for bone mass measurements : self-assessment indices -- Diagnosing ostoporosis -- Predicting fracture risk -- Monitoring changes in bone density -- Secondary causes of osteoporosis -- New applications for DXA -- Reporting densitometry --FDA-approved densitometry devices ER -