Improved accuracy in Risser sign grading with lateral spinal radiography

European Spine Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1676-1685

  Kotwicki, Tomasz ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bone age; Idiopathic scoliosis; Iliac apophysis; Risser sign

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BONE GROWTH; BONE MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; ILIAC CREST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATERAL SPINAL RADIOGRAPHY; OSSIFICATION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISSER SIGN GRADING; SACRUM; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY FILM;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE DEVELOPMENT; EPIPHYSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILIUM; OSTEOGENESIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACROILIAC JOINT; SCOLIOSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPINE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 57049175028     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-008-0794-7     Document Type: Article

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