Mulligan P J, Smith D A, Smith C B, Anderson J B, Barnes R
Br J Radiol. 1975 May;48(569):370-3. doi: 10.1259/0007-1285-48-569-370.
Positive correlation between the mineral content of the mid site of right third metacarpal and neck of femur has been established using the psi-ray absorption technique described by Shimmins et al. (1972b) to make measurements on excised human bones. An X-ray method (Anderson, Shimmins and Smith, 1966; Shimmins et al. 1972a) was used to measure the mineral content of the right third metacarpal in 101 female and 22 male patients with subcapital fracture of the ferum. When their metacarpal "whole bone densities" were compared with those of control subjects of the same age and sex, they were found to have significantly lower (P smaller than (0.025) average values. However, groups of patients defined according to Garden's classification of severity of fracture could not be distinguished one from the other on the basis of metacarpal whole bone density measurement.
采用希明斯等人（1972b）描述的psi射线吸收技术对切除的人体骨骼进行测量，已确定右第三掌骨中部与股骨颈的矿物质含量之间存在正相关。使用一种X射线方法（安德森、希明斯和史密斯，1966年；希明斯等人，1972a）测量了101名女性和22名男性股骨颈下骨折患者右第三掌骨的矿物质含量。当将他们掌骨的“全骨密度”与相同年龄和性别的对照受试者的全骨密度进行比较时，发现他们的平均值显著更低（P小于0.025）。然而，根据Garden骨折严重程度分类定义的患者组，无法通过掌骨全骨密度测量相互区分。
