PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - A Mann TI - Women's health issues and nuclear medicine, part III: women and osteoporosis. DP - 1999 Dec 01 TA - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology PG - 266--270 VI - 27 IP - 4 4099 - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/27/4/266.short 4100 - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/27/4/266.full SO - J. Nucl. Med. Technol.1999 Dec 01; 27 AB - OBJECTIVE: This article is the third in a 4-part series on women's health issues and nuclear medicine. After reading this article the technologist should be able to: (a) state potential risk factors for osteoporosis; (b) describe osteoporosis and its natural history; and (c) identify methods for detecting normal and abnormal bone mineral density results.