Accuracy of skeletal age assessment in children from birth to 6 years of age with the ultrasonographic version of the Greulich-Pyle atlas

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 683-690

  Bilgili, Yasemin ^a,b   Hizel, Selda ^a   Kara, Simay Altan ^a   Sanli, Cihat ^a   Erdal, Haydar Hüseyin ^a   Altinok, Deniz ^a  

^a KIRIKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Greulich Pyle atlas; Hand and wrist; Skeletal age; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BONE; MEDICINE; RADIATION; RADIOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; BONE AGE; BOOK; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; SKELETON; WRIST RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038462032     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2003.22.7.683     Document Type: Article

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