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A STUDY OF SKELETAL MATURATION IN A GROUP OF MELBOURNE CHILDREN *
Author(s) -
ROCHE A. F.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1967.tb01695.x
Subject(s) - medicine , bone age , demography , gerontology , pediatrics , sociology
EDITORIAL SYNOPSIS The skeletal age of a child can be assessed by assigning to a radiograph of the left hand and wrist, the age at which the observed level of maturity was reached by a group of American children studied by Greulich and Pyle. An atlas, based on their findings, provided the standards by which Melbourne children were assessed. This report shows that these standards are applicable to Melbourne children aged 2 to 13 years and of British origin, and that for them no change in the age scale, as a correcting factor, is necessary.