Differential diagnosis in osteoporosis
Jesserer, H.
Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift 140(18-19): 470-474
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0043-5341 PMID: 2251839 Document Number: 365369
Osteoporosis is a so called metabolic osteopathy. Under this term alterations are included concerning primary the bone tissue, but in consequence disable bone organs. Into this group of affections belong also the osteomalacia, the parathyreogenic osteodystrophy, the osteosclerosis caused by systemic changes of the bone tissue turn-over and furthermore different combinations of such alterations. For their principal diagnosis in every single case the histological findings are most important for their pathogenetic differentiation and for the (therapeutically and diagnostically important) individual specification anamnesis, X-ray findings and several biochemical parameters are important.