Porosity: a curiosity without diagnostic significance.

Porosity: a curiosity without diagnostic significance.

Rothschild B M

American journal of physical anthropology

1997

1997-12

A controlled study of the relationship of two standard clinical indicators of osteoarthritis and porosity failed to demonstrate a relationship. Porosity appears to be a curiosity that has no clinical correlation and is not a sign of an identifiable rheumatologic disorder. It should be deleted as an identifier for osteoarthritis.

Anthropology; Bone Matrix/anatomy & histology; Humans; Joints/anatomy & histology; Osteoarthritis/*diagnosis; Physical/*methods; Porosity

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