title: [Anthropometric characteristics of adolescents with primary epiphysiolysis].
abstract: The authors have studied five cases of adolescents, four girls and one boy, affected of slipped capital femoral epiphysis, aged between twelve and fourteen years. They describe some clinical particularities and the analytical findings. The anthropometrical studies confirm that slipped capital femoral epiphysis is an entity observed in adolescents with overweight and obesity. The parameter showing fat, at the braquial and body level, are over two standard deviation of the local normal patterns.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006617:Hip Dislocation / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006728:Hormones / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012885:Skinfold Thickness
chemical_list: D006728:Hormones
vernacular_title: Características antropométricas de púberes afectos de epifisiólisis primaria.