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Analysis of skeletal age based on hand-wrist and cervical vertebrae radiography | |
Ishpreet Singh, Shikha Saxena | |
Background: Growing occurs at a faster rate during adolescence, peaks at that point, and then slows down until maturity is attained. The present study was conducted to assess skeletal age based on hand-wrist and cervical vertebrae radiography. Materials & Methods: 90 subjects of both genders were subjected to hand wrist radiographs and lateral cephalograms. Concavity, anterior height, and angle—three morphometric alterations of the vertebral bodies C2 through C4were measured. Results: Out of 90, males were 50 and females were 40. Excellent correlations were found for the concavity of C2, C3, and C4 as well as for the anterior height of C3 and C4. Although statistically highly significant, angle C3 had only a low correlation coefficient and angle C4 did not correlate. There was agreement of the calculated skeletal age (CSA) of the Greulich and Pyle hand-wrist assessment. Conclusion: Compared to cervical spine, morphometric assessment of age-dependent changes in chronologic age demonstrated an advantage. |
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