Peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) has the ability to improve the diagnostic utility of densitometry in children and ad...
The development of bone strength at the proximal radius during childhood and adolescence
Current investigations of bone development mostly focus on bone mass, but bone strength may be functionally more important than mass. T...
Densitometric and tomographic analyses of musculoskeletal interactions in humans
Previous studies with standard densitometry (DXA) have suggested that the bone mass is strongly dependent on the muscle mass in the spe...
The ‘muscle-bone unit’ in children and adolescents: a 2000 overview
In former views hormones, calcium, vitamin D and other humoral and nonmechanical agents dominated control of postnatal bone strength (a...
On new opportunities for absorptiometry
Mechanical loads cause bone strains; and muscle forces, not body weight, cause the largest strains. The strains help to control the eff...
Bone metabolism and bone mineral density in childhood hypophosphatasia
Childhood hypophosphatasia (HP) is an inborn error of bone metabolism, characterized by a reduced tissue-nonspecific isoenzyme of alkal...
Influence of muscle strength on bone strength during childhood and adolescence
In connection with the prevention of osteoporosis, paediatrics is challenged with ensuring the optimal formation of the skeletal system...
Problems of bone analysis in childhood and adolescence
The monitoring of bone metabolism and skeletal development during childhood and adolescence is becoming increasingly important in the p...
The development of the skeletal system in children and the influence of muscular strength
In a study on 14 healthy children aged from 6 to 13 years, the volumetric spongiosa bone density (SBD), cortical bone density (CBD), bo...
Measurement of forearm bone in children by peripheral computed tomography
By means of peripheral computed tomography (pQCT), adult cortical bone density and volume was shown to be under a fixed rectilinear rel...