Skeletal age in youth soccer players: Implication for age verification

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 469-474

  Malina, Robert M ^a,b   Peña Reyes, Maria Eugenia ^c   Figueiredo, Antonio J ^d   Coelho E Silva, Manuel J ^d   Horta, Luis ^e   Miller, Rui ^e   Chamorro, Manuel ^f   Serratosa, Luis ^f   Morate, Francisco ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGÍA E HISTORIA   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECNOLOGIAS   (Portugal)

^f Medicina de la Educación Física y el Deporte   (Spain)

Author keywords

adolescence; biological maturation; bone age; epiphyseal union; youth sports

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BONE AGE; BONE MATURATION; CHILD; CHRONOLOGY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPORT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; ATHLETES; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GROWTH PLATE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PORTUGAL; SOCCER; SPAIN;

EID: 78649342680     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSM.0b013e3181f827ea     Document Type: Article

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