Bone densitometry in growing patients
Subtitle: guidelines for clinical practice
By: edited by Aenor J. Sawyer, Laura K. Bachrach, Ellen B. Fung ; with a foreword by Sydney Lou Bonnick.
Contributors: Sawyer, Aenor J.; Bachrach, Laura K.; Fung, Ellen B.
Series: Current clinical practice
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781588296344
Subjects: Bone densitometry.; Bones -- Growth.; Child development.; Bone Diseases -- radiography.; Adolescent.; Bone Density.; Child.; Densitometry -- methods.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rationale for bone densitometry in childhood and adolescence / Aenor J. Sawyer and Laura K. Bachrach; title: Tools for measuring bone in children and adolescents / Kate A. Ward, Zulf Mughal, and Judith E. Adams; title: Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry / Nicola J. Crabtree, Mary B. Leonard, and Babette S. Zemel; title: Clinical indications for the use of DXA in pediatrics / Laura K. Bachrach ... [et al.]; title: Acquisition of DXA in children and adolescents / Nicola J. Crabtree, Kyla Kent, and Babette S. Zemel; title: Analysis / Moira Petit ... [et al.]; title: Evaluation / Babette S. Zemel and Moira Petit; title: Reporting DXA results / Ellen B. Fung ... [et al.]; title: Children with special considerations / Laurie J. Moyer-Mileur, Zulf Mughal, and Ellen B. Fung; title: Research considerations / Mary B. Leonard and Moira Petit; title: Looking to the future of pediatric bone densitometry / Nicholas J. Bishop, Aenor J. Sawyer, and Mary B. Leonard.