Research Article

Bone Mineral Densities and Mechanical Properties of Retrieved Femoral Bone Samples in relation to Bone Mineral Densities Measured in the Respective Patients

Table 4

Results of BMD testing and mechanical properties of bone samples from the literature compared to own test data.

DXA BMD femoral neck DXA BMD femoral head DXA BMD Ashing BMD
[mg/cm²][mg/cm²][mg/cm²][mg/cm³][N/mm²][N/mm²]
Patient measurementsPatient measurementsBone samplesBone samplesBone samplesBone samples

Rohlmann et al., 1980 [18]399 ± 130389 ± 2707.4 ± 4.0
Uchiyama et al., 1999 [19]88 ± 16126 ± 96.9
Au et al., 1998 [20]758 ± 114
Mazurkiewicz and Topoliński, 2009 [21]289 ± 6913.4 ± 6.5
Own data1016 ± 1661376 ± 404315 ± 199347 ± 113232 ± 1516.4 ± 3.7