title: Bone mineral content: data analysis.
abstract: We reviewed the literature related to intrauterine bone mineral content (BMC) curves and the expression of BMC measurements in infants. From this review, it appears that the curves developed by Greer and by Minton for the radius are extremely similar and that both should be used as the reference curve. It also appears that expression of assessment results in terms of BMC and bone width (BW) permits an evaluation of growth of bone mass versus growth of size of the bone scanned. Although the BMC/BW ratio might be a useful but unproved conceptual adjunct, expression of photon absorptiometry results in terms of the BMC/BW ratio alone does not confer any specific advantage and theoretically could mask important specific information about bone mass and size.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, OH 45267-0541.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mimouni
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Tsang
mesh_terms: D001846:Bone Development; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008903:Minerals / Q000032:analysis*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012015:Reference Standards; D012016:Reference Values
chemical_list: D008903:Minerals