The Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis

Jerilynn C. Prior; John D. Wark; Susan I. Barr; Daniele Coen; Emanuela Terzian; Nicola Magrini; B. Lawrence Riggs; L. Joseph Melton

doi:10.1056/NEJM199301073280115

The Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis

Jerilynn C. Prior, John D. Wark, Susan I. Barr, Daniele Coen, Emanuela Terzian, Nicola Magrini, B. Lawrence Riggs, L. Joseph Melton

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To the Editor: The article by Riggs and Melton on the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis (Aug. 27 issue)¹ is likely to become a much cited reference. Therefore, the error in the legend for their Figure 2 is important. Figure 2 is said to show scanning electron micrographs of cancellous bone from a normal young woman and a postmenopausal woman with osteoporosis. These micrographs, reprinted from an article by Dempster et al.,² actually show bone from a normal man and a 47-year-old woman with osteoporosis whose reproductive status was not described. The authors did not mention the potential role of…

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	65-66
Number of pages	2
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	328
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM199301073280115
State	Published - Jan 7 1993

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