Applicability of two commonly used bone age assessment methods to twenty-first century UK children.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the effect of secular change on skeletal maturation and thus on the applicability of the Greulich and Pyle (G&P) and Tanner and Whitehouse (TW3) methods.

Methods

BoneXpert was used to assess bone age from 392 hand trauma radiographs (206 males, 257 left). The paired sample t test was performed to assess the difference between mean bone age (BA) and mean chronological age (CA). ANOVA was used to assess the differences between groups based on socioeconomic status (taken from the Index of Multiple Deprivation).

Results

CA ranged from 2 to 15 years for females and 2.5 to 15 years for males. Numbers of children living in low, average and high socioeconomic areas were 216 (55%), 74 (19%) and 102 (26%) respectively. We found no statistically significant

SUBMITTER: Alshamrani K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6890594 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature