Use of the new US90 standards for TW-RUS skeletal maturity scores in youths from the Italian population.
Recently, 1997, Tanner and co-workers provided a new scale converting TW-RUS standard maturity scores to skeletal age for European North American youths (US90). The aim of the present study was to test if the accuracy of TW-RUS bone age assessments in the Italian population could be improved by evaluating the estimates obtained with this new scale in comparison with other standards (UK60: original British series, B70: Belgian series and S80: Spanish series). 1,831 hand-wrist radiographs (Italian healthy subjects aged from 8 to 16.8 years) were evaluated. The US90 reference values are resulted the most suitable TW-RUS standards. Therefore, it seems useful to update the reference values of TW-RUS SMS in Italian youths, using this new scale.
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Dipartimento di Pediatria, Università di Genova, Istituto G. Gaslini, Genova, Italia. gaslini@mbox.ulisse.it
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Magliano
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Di Battista
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Aicardi
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Aicardi
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D000293:Adolescent; D000365:Age Determination by Skeleton / Q000379:methods*; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D001846:Bone Development; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D012015:Reference Standards