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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 79:1899 (1997)
© 1997 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Book Review

TEXTBOOK OF OSTEOPOROSIS. John A. Kanis. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Blackwell Science, 1996. $195.00, 452 pp.

Leela Rangaswamy, M.D.

The gradual (soon to be exponential) increase in the geriatric population has stimulated a great deal of interest in and a plethora of publications on the systemic disease that is known as osteoporosis. Chapter 1 begins with the statement that "osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disease characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue with a consequent increase in bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture [Consensus Development Conference, 1993]." Osteoporosis is the result of the destruction of processes that normally maintain skeletal balance. Kanis discusses the manner in which skeletal mass is . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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