Bone Growth On Hand. Most surgeons lack experience with such tumors. The patterns were consistent with data on normal growth.
These plates consist of special cells responsible for the bones growth in length. The idea of using hand and wrist radiograph for determining the skeletal age is that. Longitudinal data on adolescent growth in height and skeletal development of the hand and wrist were collected as part of a prospective study of the growth and development of 212 randomly selected Swedish urban children.
The body reacts growing bits of bone along the edges of the joint to compensate.
HOW BONE AGE IS DONE The bone age measures the maturity of the growth plates in the skeleton Fig. The onset peak and end of the pubertal growth spurt were defined on the unsmoo. Most growth plate fractures occur in bones of the fingers forearm and lower leg. These protrusions of bone are called bone spurs or osteophytes.
