Determinants of microdamage in elderly human vertebral trabecular bone.

Previous studies have shown that microdamage accumulates in bone as a result of physiological loading and occurs naturally in human trabecular bone. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors associated with pre-existing microdamage in human vertebral trabecular bone, namely age, archite...

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Main Authors: Hélène Follet, Delphine Farlay, Yohann Bala, Stéphanie Viguet-Carrin, Evelyne Gineyts, Brigitte Burt-Pichat, Julien Wegrzyn, Pierre Delmas, Georges Boivin, Roland Chapurlat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23457465/pdf/?tool=EBI