RATIONALE: Collecting and storing bone samples from patients with osteoporotic and nonosteoporotic fracture to quantitatively analyze the differentially expressed proteins to further explain the relationship between bone iron content and bone mineral density (BMD). PURPOSE: This research study is looking at changes of iron content and differentially expressed proteins in bone samples from patients with osteoporotic and nonosteoporotic. fracture.
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the iron content in human bone samples
Timeframe: 3 month