Bone Densitometry in Growing Patients / Edition 1

by Aenor Sawyer

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617376856
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	11/19/2010
Series:	Current Clinical Practice
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Rationale for Bone Densitometry in Childhood and Adolescence.- Tools for Measuring Bone in Children and Adolescents.- Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry.- Clinical Indications for the Use of DXA in Pediatrics.- Acquisition of DXA in Children and Adolescents.- Analysis.- Evaluation.- Reporting DXA Results.- Children With Special Considerations.- Research Considerations.- Looking to the Future of Pediatric Bone Densitometry.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"Part of the Series Current Clinical Practice, the volume written by authors from several countries reviews in 11 chapters various tools for measuring bone in children and adolescents, but the main theme is to describe the indications, use and interpretation of DXA. A clearly written text useful to clinicians and technicians." (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews, Vol. 4 (3), March, 2007)

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