Quantitative Ultrasound Measurements at Hand Phalanges in Children and Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1547-1553

  Halaba, Zenon P ^a  

^a Public Clinical Hospital No 1 in Zabrze   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Bone quality; Children; Longitudinal; Puberty; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ANTHROPOMETRY; FOOD PROCESSING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

ADOLESCENTS; AGE GROUPS; AMPLITUDE DEPENDENT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; BONE QUALITY; CHILDREN; CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; LONGITUDINAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PUBERTY; QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND; STEPWISE REGRESSION; STRONG CORRELATIONS; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND MEASUREMENTS;

ULTRASONICS;

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HAND; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND; VELOCITY;

AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; FINGER PHALANGES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PUBERTY; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 52049125478     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.03.007     Document Type: Article

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