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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-6-11
pubmed:abstractText
Linear microcracks and diffuse damage (staining over a broad region) are two types of microscopic damage known to occur in vivo in human vertebral trabecular bone. These damage types might be associated with vertebral failure. Using microcomputed tomography and finite element analysis for specimens of cancellous bone, we estimated the stresses in the trabeculae of human vertebral tissue for inferosuperior loading. Microdamage was quantified histologically. The density of in vivo linear microcracks was, but the diffuse damage area was not, related to the estimates of von Mises stress distribution in the tissue. In vivo linear microcrack density increased with increasing coefficient of variation of the trabecular von Mises stress and with increasing average trabecular von Mises stress generated per superoinferior apparent axial stress. Nonlinear increase in linear crack density, similar to the increase of the coefficient of variation of trabecular shear stresses, with decreasing bone stiffness and bone volume fraction suggests that damage may accumulate rather rapidly in diseases associated with low bone density due to the dramatic increase of shear stresses in the tissue.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0090-6964
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
726-32
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Trabecular shear stresses predict in vivo linear microcrack density but not diffuse damage in human vertebral cancellous bone.
pubmed:affiliation
Bone and Joint Center, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, 2799 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48202, USA. yeni@bjc.hfh.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Evaluation Studies, Validation Studies