Use of the new US90 standards for TW-RUS skeletal maturity scores in youths from the Italian population

Hormone Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 168-172

  Vignolo, Marina ^a,b   Naselli, A ^a   Magliano, P ^a   Di Battista, E ^a   Aicardi, M ^a   Aicardi, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Italian population; Methods; Skeletal maturation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE AGE; BONE MATURATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ITALY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; WRIST; X RAY FILM;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; AGING; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 0032817426     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000023352     Document Type: Article

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