Skeletal age changes in puberty.
Open Access
- 1 February 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 59 (2) , 115-119
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.59.2.115
Abstract
Changes in skeletal age and height of 34 Leeds schoolboys were studied in a four year longitudinal survey covering puberty. Tanner and Whitehouse method TW2 was used. In each boy, skeletal age advanced rapidly during puberty, reaching a peak at an age related to that of peak height velocity. The importance of recognising that this acceleration of bone age is normal is stressed, in order to avoid attributing it to other causes.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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