Intra- and interobserver error of the Greulich–Pyle method as used on a Danish forensic sample

Lynnerup, Niels; Belard, Erika; Buch-Olsen, Karen Middelbo; Sejrsen, Birgitte; Damgaard-Pedersen, Karen

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2008.05.005

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“…These limitations and the difficulty of interpreting X-rays of an almost ossified hand raise doubts about the reliability of the method, when it is used to predict reaching legal adult age. Despite these limitations in accordance with previous studies [10,11,14,[23][24][25][26][27], our results showed that the GPM is a reproducible and repeatable method. This means that although it closely depends on the judgment of the person interpreting it, there is a high level of agreement between different readers in assessment of skeletal age.…”

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confidence: 91%

Applicability of Greulich and Pyle method for age assessment in forensic practice on an Italian sample

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Applicability of Greulich and Pyle method for age assessment in forensic practice on an Italian sample

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“…In most cases, the radiologists and pediatricians use the GP atlas, whereas some pediatric endocrinologists use the more finely scaled TW method [7]. Several studies have been published on the intra- and interobserver variance of BA [8,9,10,11]. King et al [8] provide an overview of many of these studies but it is difficult to draw any conclusions from their table because of conflicting results due to differing study designs, differing experience of the raters and differing measures of the interrater variability.…”

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The Use of Bone Age in Clinical Practice – Part 1

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This review examines the role of skeletal maturity (‘bone age’, BA) assessment in clinical practice. BA is mainly used in children with the following conditions: short stature (addressed in part 1 of this review), tall stature, early or late puberty, and congenital adrenal hyperplasia (all addressed in part 2). Various manual and automatic methods of BA assessment have been developed. Healthy tall children tend to have advanced BA and healthy short children tend to have delayed BA in comparison to chronological age. Growth hormone (GH) treatment of children with GH deficiency leads to a catch-up in BA that is usually appropriate for the height of the child. Response to GH is dependent on BA delay in young children with idiopathic short stature, and GH dosage appears to affect BA acceleration. In chronic renal failure, BA is delayed until puberty but then increases due to increased sensitivity of the growth plate to sex steroids, thus further impairing adult height. The assessment of BA provides an important contribution to the diagnostic workup and management of children with short stature.

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“…Therefore ethnic and racial differences in growth patterns exist at specific ages, and the GPA method at times may not recognize this fact [146,147]. This is why population data is extremely important, and for the GPA method such data is beginning to appear: Danish [148], Moroccan [149], Spanish [150], Malawi [151], Thai [152], Turkish [153], Dutch [154], Pakistani [155], Chinese [156,157], Swedish [158], Asian [159], Italian [160,161], Austrian [162], German [163], and many others [164][165][166][167][168]. These articles begin to show, according to the case, the straightforward applicability or the need to standardize the method according to the specific population-an issue of utmost importance.…”

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confidence: 99%