Assessment of skeletal age at the wrist in children with a new ultrasound device

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 429-433

  Mentzel, Hans Joachim ^a   Vilser, Claudia ^a   Eulenstein, Marcus ^a   Schwartz, Tseela ^b   Vogt, Susanna ^a   Böttcher, Joachim ^a   Yaniv, Irit ^b   Tsoref, Liat ^b   Kauf, Eberhard ^a   Kaiser, Werner A ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Sunlight Medical Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

Child; Greulich and Pyle; Radiography; Skeletal age; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATLAS; BODY HEIGHT; BONE AGE; BONE GROWTH; CALCULATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIPHYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RADIUS; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUND TRANSMISSION; ULNA; VELOCITY; WRIST;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; CARPAL BONES; CHILD; EPIPHYSES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; RADIUS; SEX FACTORS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; ULNA; WRIST;

EID: 20144389609     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-004-1385-3     Document Type: Article

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