Can orthopaedic clinicians learn to read skeletal bone age? An inter- and intra observer study between specialties
Objective Determination of skeletal age is essential for predicting eventual leg length discrepancies and predicting the accurate timing for surgical intervention in order to correct any discrepancy. To our knowledge, there has not been an interdisciplinary comparison of the degree of agreement in d...
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Published in | Journal of children's orthopaedics Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 69 - 72 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
London, England
SAGE Publications
01.02.2011
Springer Berlin Heidelberg Sage Publications Ltd |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | Objective
Determination of skeletal age is essential for predicting eventual leg length discrepancies and predicting the accurate timing for surgical intervention in order to correct any discrepancy. To our knowledge, there has not been an interdisciplinary comparison of the degree of agreement in determining skeletal bone age.
Materials and methods
We evaluated 30 left hand/wrist radiographs (children aged 16 months to 10 years 6 months) on two separate occasions between musculoskeletal paediatric radiologists, paediatric orthopaedic surgeons and a senior radiographer after appropriate training.
Results
All clinicians were able to reliably age patients with good intra- and interobserver agreement.
Conclusion
We suggest that following tuition, orthopaedic surgeons are able to reliably age patients from X-rays. |
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ISSN: | 1863-2521 1863-2548 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11832-010-0307-1 |