In Vivo Measurement of Apparent Trabecular Bone Structure of the Radius in Women With Low Bone Density Discriminates Patients with Recent Wrist Fracture from Those Without Fracture

The purpose of this cross-sectional case-control study was to determine whether indices of bone structure at the 4% site of the radius discriminate women who have sustained a recent low-energy fracture of the contralateral distal radius (n = 21) from women with similar bone density and no history of fracture (n = 21). Images of the distal forearm were acquired using peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) and were analyzed using …