Bone maturation reflects the secular trend in growth

Hormone Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 125-130

  Matsuoka, Hisafumi ^a   Sato, Koshi ^b   Sugihara, Shigetaka ^a   Murata, Mitsunori ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult stature; Bone age; Secular trend; Tanner Whitehouse 2 method

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE GROWTH; BONE MATURATION; BONE MINERAL; CHILD; CHINA; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

EID: 0033507414     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000023448     Document Type: Article

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