Accuracy of the Sauvegrain method in determining skeletal age during puberty

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1689-1696

  Diméglio, Alain ^a   Charles, Yann Philippe ^a   Daures, Jean Pierre ^b   De Rosa, Vincenzo ^a   Kaboré, Boniface ^a  

^a LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; ANATOMY; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; BONE AGE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE STRUCTURE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELBOW; ELBOW LATERAL CONDYLE; ELBOW RADIOGRAPHY; ELBOW TROCHLEA; EPIPHYSIODESIS; FEMALE; GREULICH AND PYLE ATLAS; GROWTH ACCELERATION; GROWTH RATE; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MATURITY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NORMAL HUMAN; OLECRANON APOPHYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL RADIAL EPIPHYSIS; PUBERTY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAUVEGRAIN METHOD; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; WRIST RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 23044480527     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.D.02418     Document Type: Article

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