Retrospective survey of clinical attention taken to osteoporosis in patients admitted in orthopaedic department for fragility fractures.
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Considering that to international level it has put in evidence that often the diagnosis of osteoporosis is underestimated and that diagnostic and therapeutic attention of the same one are often neglected, the authors have assessed the degree of care provided by orthopaedic surgeons about the problem of osteoporosis, considering the medical files of orthopaedics department. Then corrective behaviour were proposed.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Clinical cases in mineral and bone metabolism : the official journal of the Italian Society of Osteoporosis, Mineral Metabolism, and Skeletal Diseases
دوره 6 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009