Opportunistic osteoporosis screening via the measurement of frontal skull Hounsfield units derived from brain computed tomography images.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Osteoporosis is one of the most common chronic metabolic diseases, but detection and treatment rates are low. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the correlation between frontal skull Hounsfield unit (HU) values from brain computed tomography (CT) scans and T-scores of the lumbar spine and femoral neck from dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans. METHODS:Patients with < 1 year between brain CT and DXA scans were included in the study. The average frontal skull HU value used for analysis was defined as the average of four HU values of the frontal bone. A receiver operating characteristic curve was generated, and area under the curve (AUC) was used to determine the HU values of the frontal skull for predicting osteoporosis. The frontal skull HU value wit

SUBMITTER: Na MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5945032 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature