Hand Bone Age : A Digital Atlas of Skeletal Maturity

by Gilsanz, Vicente; Ratib, Osman

• ISBN13: 9783540209515
• ISBN10: 3540209514
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

For decades, the determination of bone maturity has relied on a visual evaluation of skeletal development in the hand and wrist, most commonly using the Greulich and Pyle atlas. The Gilsanz and Ratib digital atlas takes advantage of the advent of digital imaging and provides a more effective and objective approach to skeletal maturity assessment. This atlas integrates the key morphological features of ossification in the bones of the hand and wrist and provides idealized, sex- and age-specific images of skeletal development. This computer-generated set of images should serve as a reasonable alternative to the reference books currently available.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(1)
Bone Development	2	(7)
Clinical Applications for Skeletal Determinations	3	(2)
Conventional Techniques for Skeletal Determinations	5	(3)
Computer Assisted Techniques for Skeletal Determinations	8	(1)
Indicators of Skeletal Maturity in Children and Adolescents	9	(9)
Infancy	10	(1)
Toddlers	11	(1)
Pre-puberty	12	(2)
Early and Mid-puberty	14	(1)
Late Puberty	15	(1)
Post-puberty	16	(2)
Digital Bone Age Atlas	18	(5)
Subjects	18	(1)
Methods and Techniques	18	(3)
Validation of Standards and Technique	21	(2)
Software User Manual	23	(12)
Software Installation	25	(10)
Reference Images
Boys	35	(29)
Girls	64	(29)
Tables	93	(3)
References	96