Modified Greulich-Pyle, Tanner-Whitehouse, and Roche-Wainer-Thissen (knee) methods for skeletal age assessment in a group of Italian children and adolescents.
Modified Greulich-Pyle (GP), Tanner et al. 2, radius, ulna and short bones (TW2-RUS), TW2-20-bone and Roche-Wainer-Thissen RWT (knee) skeletal age assessments were made in an Italian population sample of 128 males and 93 females aged 4.1-16.9 years. All the scales appear to be well-suited to the Italian population despite minor differences. A very high correlation was found between the assessment of knee skeletal ages by the RWT method and that of the hand-wrist by the GP and TW2 systems in the same subject without sex and age-associated variations.
Vignolo
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Department of Child Welfare and Neonatal Medicine, University of Genoa, Institute G. Gaslini, Italy.
Milani
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DiBattista
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Naselli
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Mostert
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Aicardi
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D000293:Adolescent; D000365:Age Determination by Skeleton; D001846:Bone Development; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006225:Hand / Q000254:growth & development; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D007717:Knee / Q000254:growth & development; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D014953:Wrist / Q000254:growth & development