Tanner-whitehouse method of assessing skeletal maturity: Problems and common errors

Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 53-55

  Cox, Leslie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Errors; KIGS; Skeletal maturity

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; BONE AGE; BONE MATURATION; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPIPHYSIS; HAND; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; BONE AND BONES; CHILD; HAND; HUMANS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0029951337     PISSN: 16632818     EISSN: 16632826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000184848     Document Type: Article

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