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Fractures taken as a whole increase in incidence with advancing age but those of the ankle, proximal forearm bones and digits have been shown to occur independently of the fall in bone mass associated with osteoporosis.
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Lyons, A.R. (1998). Short- and Long-term Outcome of Osteoporotic Fractures. In: Geusens, P. (eds) Osteoporosis in Clinical Practice. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3382-7_6
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