U.C.L.A. Rheumatology Pathophysiology of Disease Course Lecture,
Second Year Medical School 1997

  
 
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Osteoporosis

 

Osteoporosis is a disease of bone in which there is both a loss in the bone mass as well as an abnormality in the microarchitecture of bone.

  
Figure 13. A schematic of the changes in the bone architecture in osteoporosis.  
 
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