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313 healthy school girls from 6 to 16 years of age from middle income Bengali families were selected for a radiological study of norms of skeletal maturity at the elbow joint. The age of appearance and fusion of the four centres of the epiphyses at the lower end of the humerus and the centres for the head of the radius and top of the ulnar olecranon is reported. The 11th birthday seems to be an important landmark in growth when fusion commences at a rapid pace. By the thirteenth birthday the acceleration in growth is nearly complete. The skeletal maturity of the three long bones around the elbow joint was completed by the 16th birthday.
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Kripalani, G., Banerjea, A.K. & Rao, M.N. Ossification centres at the elbow joint in Bengali girls. Indian J Pediatr 37, 127–133 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02750902
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