Trabecular bone of growth plate origin i
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Qingju Wang; Ali Ghasem-Zadeh; Xiao-Fang Wang; Sandra Iuliano-Burns; Ego Seeman
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Article
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2011
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American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
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English
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## Abstract Skeletal fragility is common at metaphyseal regions of long bones. The cortices of this region are derived by coalescence of trabeculae around the periphery of the growth plate, not by periosteal apposition, as occurs in the diaphyses. We therefore hypothesized that trabecular bone in c