DESCRIPTION:
Here is a book which compiles the most accurate data on bone age in an extremely useful form, so that the practicing clinician, pediatrician, general practitioner, internist, or radiologist may find data quickly and accurately.
This book represents a tremendous amount of work, a study of over 1,000 individuals, with from two to twenty films each, in an effort to find an acceptable series of standards.
This book should be in the possession of all those who expect to interpret skeletal age from films or assess the patient from that clinical point of view.
To pediatrician, radiologist and all those responsible for the physical care of the child, this Atlas is essential. Text and illustration are of the highest standards, and the work will long remain the classic in the field.
CONTENTS:
1. The rationale and technique of assessing the developmental status of children from roentgenograms of the hand and wrist
2. Male standars
3. Female standars
4. Maturity indicators of individual bones and epiphyses
