Background Good bone quality is key in avoiding a multitude of afflictions, including
osteoporotic fragility fractures and poor outcomes after spine surgery. In patients undergoing …

Poor bone quality and low bone mineral density (BMD) have been previously tied to higher
rates of postoperative mechanical complications in patients undergoing spinal fusion. These …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT The importance of bone status assessment in spine surgery is
well recognized. The current gold standard for assessing bone mineral density is dual …

OBJECTIVE Osteoporosis has significant implications in spine fusion surgery, for which
reduced spinal bone mineral density (BMD) can result in complications and poorer …

Objective Bone mineral density (BMD) is a very important factor in spinal fusion surgery
using instrumentation. Our aim was to investigate the utility of Hounsfield units (HU) …

Study Design. A systematic review. Objective. The aim of this study was to evaluate the
clinical utility of assessing bone quality using computed tomography (CT) attenuation in …

Materials and methods We conducted a retrospective study of 78 female patients who
underwent CT lumbar spine, abdomen, and pelvis in our hospital between the years 2016 …

Background Current evidence suggests that dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans,
the conventional method defining osteoporosis, is underutilized and, when used, may …

Objectives Signal intensity of lumbar-spine at magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) correlates
to bone mineral density (BMD). Our aim was to define a quantitative MRI-based score to …

Objective The present study is aimed to validate the ability of the vertebral bone quality
(VBQ) score to evaluate bone quality in patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression …