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    Osteoporosis in clinical practice : a practical guide for diagnosis and treatment / Piet Geusens, Philip N. Sambrook, and Robert Lindsay.

    • Title:Osteoporosis in clinical practice : a practical guide for diagnosis and treatment / Piet Geusens, Philip N. Sambrook, and Robert Lindsay.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Geusens, Piet.
      Sambrook, Philip.
      Lindsay, Robert, 1943-
    • Published/Created:London ; New York : Springer, ©2004.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Osteoporosis.
      Physicians (General practice)
    • Medical Subjects: Osteoporosis--diagnosis.
      Diagnosis, Differential.
      Osteoporosis--therapy.
    • Edition:2nd ed.
    • Description:xxix, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:1852337575 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Introduction : general outlines of assessment and management of osteoporosis : postmenopausal osteoporosis as an example / Piet Geusens, Robert Lindsay and Philip N. Sambrook
      Pt. 1. General aspects of bone, osteoporosis and fractures
      1. Normal skeletal structure and function / Philip N. Sambrook and Piet Geusens
      2. Physiology of calcium homeostasis and bone remodeling / Dirk Vanderschueren, Steven Boonen and Roger Bouillon
      3. Biomechanics of bone and fracture / Lis Mosekilde
      4. Pathophysiology of fractures / Michael R. McClung
      5. Epidemiology of osteoporotic fractures / Elaine Dennison and Cyrus Cooper
      6. Socioeconomic impact / L. Joseph Melton III
      Pt. 2. Investigations in osteoporosis
      7. Bone densitometry, radiography, and quantitative ultrasound for the diagnostic assessment of osteoporosis / Claus-C. Gluer
      8. Biochemical indices of bone turnover / Markus J. Seibel
      9. Dual energy X-ray-based absorptiometry in daily clinical practice / Piet Geusens
      10. Differential diagnosis : back pain and osteoporosis / Kristina Akesson and Authony D. Woolf
      11. Differential diagnosis : bone pain and fractures / Carlo Gennari and S. Gonnelli
      12. Falls in older people / Stephen R. Lord, Hylton B. Menz and Catherine Sherrington
      13. Genes and osteoporosis / Stuart H. Ralston
      Pt. 3. Treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis
      14. Prevention early after menopause / John C. Stevenson
      15. Pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic strategies to prevent hip fracture in old age / Steven Boonen, Patrick Haentjens and Dirk Vanderschueren
      16. Selective estrogen receptor modulators / Robert Lindsay
      17. Bisphosphonate therapy for postmenopausal osteoporosis / Henry Bone
      18. Anabolic drug therapy in osteoporosis / Piet Geusens and Robert Lindsay
      19. Surgical therapy of fractures / Karl J. Obrant and Olof Johnell
      Pt. 4. Other aspects of osteoporosis
      20. Osteoporosis in men / Ego Seeman
      21. Corticosteroid osteoporosis / Philip N. Sambrook
      22. Tumor bone diseases / Jean-Jacques Body
      23. Immobilization, exercise, and osteoporosis / Mehrsheed Sinaki
      24. Nutrition and osteoporosis / Peter Burckhardt
      25. menopause : a woman's view / Linda Edwards and Kristy Carne
      Pt. 5. future of diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis
      26. Future developments : risk assessment / Philip D. Ross and Piet Geusens
      27. Future therapies / Ian R. Reid
      28. How to interpret new data / Robert P. Heaney.
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