Ya-Hui Wang, Guang-You Zhu, Peng Wang, Li-Hua Fan, Guo-Zhen Zhang, Chong-Liang Ying, Xiao Lu, Yi-Bin Cheng
OBJECTIVE: To establish mathematical models which are used to assess bone age of living subjects in Chinese Han female teenagers. METHODS: Radiographs were taken from 838 normal Chinese female subjects aged from 11 to 20 years old including sternal end of clavical and the left side of shoulder, elbow, carpal, hip, knee and ankle joints,which were from Middle China, South China and East China. Then read and grade the 24 osteal loci in accordance with the grading criteria of skeletal growth of teenagers...
April 2008: Fa Yi Xue za Zhi