HR-pQCT imaging in children, adolescents and young adults: Systematic review and subgroup meta-analysis of normative data.

ABSTRACT: We aimed to investigate the methodologies on image acquisition of normative data of high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) in children, adolescents and/or young adults (up to 25 years) and to determine their normative data based on available literature. A literature search was conducted in MEDLINE, EMBASE and Web of Science from 1947 to July 2019. Quality of articles was assessed using Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy (STARD) scoring system and Modified Newcastle-Ottawa scale (NOS). Articles which fitted the following criteria were combined to meta-analysis: age range (15 to 22.6 years), references at tibia (22.5mm) and/or radius (9.0 to 9.5mm). Eight articles were ultimately included in the systematic review and 4 of them that filled the criter

SUBMITTER: Mata-Mbemba D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6910691 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature