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Modified Greulich-Pyle (GP), Tanner et al. 2, radius, ulna and short bones (TW2-RUS), TW2-20-bone and Roche-Wainer-Thissen RWT (knee) skeletal age assessments were made in an Italian population sample of 128 males and 93 females aged 4.1–16.9 years. All the scales appear to be well-suited to the Italian population despite minor differences. A very high correlation was found between the assessment of knee skeletal ages by the RWT method and that of the hand-wrist by the GP and TW2 systems in the same subject without sex and age-associated variations.
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Abbreviations
- GP:
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Greulich and Pyle
- TW2:
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Tanner et al. 2
- RUS:
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radius, ulna and short bones
- RWT:
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Roche-Wainer-Thissen
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Vignolo, M., Milani, S., DiBattista, E. et al. Modified Greulich-Pyle, Tanner-Whitehouse, and Roche-Wainer-Thissen (knee) methods for skeletal age assessment in a group of Italian children and adolescents. Eur J Pediatr 149, 314–317 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02171555
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