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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: September, 2006
Pages: 244
Dimensions: 178.00 x 254.00 x 15.00
Weight: 650g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Orthopaedics and Fractures, Paediatrics and Neonatal
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