Technical note: recommendations for a standard procedure to assess cortical bone at the tissue- level in vivo using impact microindentation

Diez-Perez, Adolfo; Bouxsein, Mary L.; Eriksen, Erik Fink; Khosla, Sundeep; Nyman, Jeffry S.; Papapoulos, Socrates; Tang, Simon Y.

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bonr.2016.07.004

Technical note: recommendations for a standard procedure to assess cortical bone at the tissue- level in vivo using impact microindentation

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Diez-Perez A, Bouxsein ML, Eriksen EF, Khosla S, Nyman JS, Papapoulos S. et al. Technical note: recommendations for a standard procedure to assess cortical bone at the tissue- level in vivo using impact microindentation. Bone Rep. 2016 Dec;5:181-185. DOI: 10.1016/j.bonr.2016.07.004

Abstract

Impact microindentation is a novel method for measuring the resistance of cortical bone to indentation in patients. Clinical use of a handheld impact microindentation technique is expanding, highlighting the need to standardize the measurement technique. Here, we describe a detailed standard operation procedure to improve the consistency and comparability of the measurements across centers.