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Main description:
Bone Densitometry in Growing Patients: Guidelines for Clinical Practice, edited by Drs. Sawyer, Bachrach, and Fung, is a milestone book for all health prof- sionals concerned with bone health in growing patients. The book introduces and emphasizes the importance of attending to issues of bone health and development in childhood and adolescence as a way of maintaining such health and decreasing the epidemic of osteoporosis that we are now seeing in older adults. In doing so, the book offers a much-needed first set of standards of bone densitometry in growing patients. Given the numerous reports of serious interpretation errors in densitometry results in children, the development of this body of work is truly important. It is in this context that Bone Densitometry in Growing Patients: Guidelines for Clinical Practice presents the current evidence, including an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses in the data on assessing bone density in childhood and adolescence. In short, the editors and authors have done an outstanding job of or- nizing not only the key topics in this broad clinical discussion, but also, and most importantly, the evidence within these areas.
Contents:
Rationale for Bone Densitometry in Childhood and Adolescence
Aenor J. Sawyer and Laura K. Bachrach
Tools for Measuring Bone in Children and Adolescents
Kate A. Ward, Zulf Mughal, and Judith E. Adams
Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry
Nicola J. Crabtree, Mary B. Leonard, and Babette S. Zemel
Clinical Indications for the Use of DXA in Pediatrics
Laura K. Bachrach, Michael A. Levine, Christopher T. Cowell, and Nicholas J. Shaw
Acquisition of DXA in Children and Adolescents
Nicola J. Crabtree, Kyla Kent, and Babette S. Zemel
Analysis
Moira Petit, Kyla Kent, Mary B. Leonard, Heather McKay, and Babette S. Zemel
Evaluation
Babette S. Zemel and Moira Petit
Reporting DXA Results
Ellen B. Fung, Laura K. Bachrach, Julie N. Briody, and Christopher T. Cowell
Children With Special Considerations
Laurie J. Moyer-Mileur, Zulf Mughal, and Ellen B. Fung
Research Considerations
Mary B. Leonard and Moira Petit
Looking to the Future of Pediatric Bone Densitometry
Nicholas J. Bishop, Aenor J. Sawyer, and Mary B. Leonard
Appendix A: Resources
Appendix B: Equations and Calculations
Appendix C: Pediatric Normative Data
Appendix D: Forms and Handouts
Index
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Publication date: November, 2010
Pages: 246
Weight: 654g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Orthopaedics and Fractures
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