Focus issue on osteoporosis.
Contributors: Sofamor Danek Group, Inc.; Focus Meeting on Osteoporosis (1997)
Series: Spine -- v. 22, no. 24S; Spine focus issue
Publisher: Lippincott-Raven
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Hagerstown, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Osteoporosis.; Spine -- Diseases.
Other titles: Osteoporosis
Notes: Title from Introduction.

Based in part upon the Focus Meeting on Osteoporosis sponsored by the Sofamor-Danek Group.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Epidemiology of spinal osteoporosis / L. Joseph Melton; value: Osteoporosis : definition and clinical presentation / David L. Glaser and Frederick S. Kaplan; value: Bone biomarkers as tools in osteoporosis management / David R. Eyre; value: Biomechanics of osteoporosis and vertebral fracture / Elizabeth R. Myers and Sara E. Wilson; value: Osteoporosis : medical prevention and treatment / Joseph M. Lane; value: Future directions : augmentation of osteoporotic vertebral bodies / Mathias P. G. Bostrom and Joseph M. Lane; value: Internal fixation in the osteoporotic spine / Serena S. Hu; value: Bone density determination / Leanne L. Seeger; value: Quality of life in the economic evaluation of osteoporosis prevention and treatment / Anna N. A. Tosteson; value: Consensus summary on the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis.