PEDIATRICS Vol. 70 No. 4 October 1982, pp. 663-664
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The Proper Evaluation of Bone Age

Tak-Sek Chan MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, The Brooklyn Hospital, Brooklyn, NY 11201

The proper evaluation of bone age in children has long been neglected in pediatric publications. For example, the 1979 edition of Nelson's Textbook of Pediatrics still carried scanty information which dated back to 1943. Similarly, the other major pediatric textbooks provided no references later than 1962. Greulich and Pyle's hand-and-wrist atlas of 1959, commonly used by radiologists today, is also outdated, for children of this generation do mature earlier than those of the last generation did.