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Peripheral or Axial Bone Density Measurements to Identify Osteoporosis in Prostate Cancer Patients Undergoing Androgen Deprivation Therapy
Urology, 07/02/09

Wadhwa VK et al. - When osteoporosis is diagnosed on pDEXA, most patients with PCa will be either osteoporotic or osteopenic at the hip, but a large proportion will be normal at the lumbar spine. In this setting, lumbar DEXA might be less reliable at predicting the fracture risk probably owing to calcification and degenerative changes.

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