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Summary: Skeletal maturity, or “bone age,” is one of the several criteria used to determine developmental or physiologic age as opposed to chronologic age. The purpose of this study of skeletal maturation of children with sex chromosome abnormalities (45,X, 47,XXX, 47,XXY, X-chromosomal mosaics) and controls is 2c-fold: (1) to investigate if children with sex chromosome aneuploidy ascertained in an unbiased fashion differ in skeletal maturation from their siblings and other normal healthy children born in Denver, Colorado, and (2) to assess if the skeletal age standards currently in use (Greulich-Pyle; Tanner-Whitehouse) are applicable to Denver children when evaluating radiographs for skeletal maturation. Mean chronologic and skeletal age were measured. Mean differences between skeletal and chronologic age for all groups across all measures were calculated.
The 45,X females constitute the only group studied with bone ages lower than expected (0.05 > P > 0.01; two-tailed test). We found no other significant differences in skeletal maturation between Denver children with sex chromosome abnormalities and their siblings or the control sample of Denver children.
Although we found the Tanner-Whitehouse standards to be more applicable for use with this population, all the Denver groups investigated yielded consistently lower bone ages than expected published norms.
This is the first documentation in a group of children with sex chromosome abnormalities, ascertained in an unbiased fashion, that, with the exception of those with a 45,X karyotype, bone age is not significantly different from that of the normal population.
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Lynn Webber, M., Puck, M., Maresh, M. et al. Short Communication: Skeletal Maturation of Children with Sex Chromosome Abnormalities. Pediatr Res 16, 343–346 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198205000-00004
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