Overview
- Atlas with software for computers, handheld PDA running PALM operating system and handheld PDA running Microsoft Pocket PC operating system
- Takes advantage of the advent of digital imaging and provides a more effective and objective approach to skeletal maturity assessment
- A portable alternative to reference books currently available!
- Allows interpretation of hand radiographs on a small screen with adequate quality
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About this book
For decades, the determination of bone maturity has relied on a visual evaluation of skeletal development in the hand and wrist, most commonly using the Greulich and Pyle atlas. The Gilsanz and Ratib digital atlas takes advantage of the advent of digital imaging and provides a more effective and objective approach to skeletal maturity assessment. This atlas integrates the key morphological features of ossification in the bones of the hand and wrist and provides idealized, sex- and age-specific images of skeletal development. This computer-generated set of images should serve as a reasonable alternative to the reference books currently available.
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Reviews
From the reviews:
Doody's Book Review Service (July 2005): "This digital format will likely become the new gold standard for bone age assessment. This publication rises above the weakness of competing bone age atlases because of its unique clinical digital format."
Pediatr Radiol (2005)35:1035: "This atlas is easy to use and, dare I say, fun. ... I strongly recommend this new atlas for any department doing a few dozen bone ages each week. ... the standard images are more precise and the standard deviation calculator is very convenient."
"This little book is a practical atlas of the skeletal maturity, related to the hand bone age … . As an atlas, it contains a lot of images of the radiological development of the bones of the hand. … The authors have achieved a complete, simple, and quickly available atlas on hand bone age that will be of help to radiologists, orthopedic surgeons and pediatricians, and even be relevant to forensic medicine." (F. Duparc, Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy, Vol. 27 (4), 2005)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hand Bone Age
Book Subtitle: A Digital Atlas of Skeletal Maturity
Authors: Vicente Gilsanz, Osman Ratib
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b138568
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-27070-6Published: 28 November 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 98
Number of Illustrations: 88 b/w illustrations
Topics: Imaging / Radiology, Diagnostic Radiology, Endocrinology, Pediatrics