Assessment of Skeletal Maturity 3e

This book is a comprehensive and practical guide to assessing skeletal maturity and predicting adult height in children. It takes you through the main scoring systems and illustrates, by way of radiographs, the main stages of bone maturity in both sexes. A handy free CD-ROM containing a growth height prediction programme is included so that predictions of growth height can be made automatically for each patient. Data can be also stored for comparison as the patient grows.Over 400 clear and concise explanatory line drawings, radiographs and growth chartsOutlines appropriate treatment for children, i.e. hormonal control, and possible growth outcomesFree CD-ROM containing growth prediction programme is included, enabling quick and easy growth prediction for each patient