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Population‐specific reference values for bone age
Author(s) -
Murata M.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
acta paediatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1997.tb18388.x
Subject(s) - medicine , ulna , bone age , demography , china , population , maturity (psychological) , chinese population , reference values , anatomy , geography , environmental health , archaeology , biology , psychology , developmental psychology , biochemistry , sociology , gene , genotype
Contemporary reference values for assessing skeletal maturity have been obtained for the Japanese population. These were used to compare skeletal maturation with populations from the UK, Belgium, North India and South China. Japanese children were found to attain skeletal maturity, based on measurements of the radius, ulna and short bones of the left hand and wrist, 1 or 2 years earlier than present‐day European and Chinese children. A relative lack of data for the North Indian population made comparison impossible. □ Bone age, skeletal maturation, reference values