A comparison between radiographic and sonographic assessment of hand and wrist bones for the estimation of skeletal age in the child patient.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to examine, with a sonographic investigation, the hand and wrist bones of a group of young patients and to compare the results with those obtained with a classical radiographic assessment.

Materials And Methods: Some 25 subjects, 9-18 years of age, who presented problems concerning their short stature or precocious puberty, were evaluated. Each subject was examined by a standard radiographic assessment and by a sonographic investigation with real-time imaging.

[Usefulness of opposed-phase gradient-echo technique in the diagnosis of occult lesions of the knee and comparison with traditional T1-weight sequences (in-phase)].

Purpose: To investigate the usefulness of opposed-phase gradient-echo (GRE) technique in detecting occult posttraumatic bone injuries in the knee. Occult injuries account for pain and, if not properly treated, may progress to severe chondral and bone damage. An early diagnosis provided by MRI can help avoid interventional procedures.

[Anterolateral fibrous impingement of the ankle. Report of 14 cases].

Purpose: Anterolateral fibrous impingement of the ankle is one of the causes of post-traumatic pain in the foot. We investigated the comparative accuracy of US and MRI in this condition.

Material And Methods: Fourteen patients were submitted to arthroscopy, plain radiography, US and MRI of the foot.

[Osteochondral lesions of the humeral head: the usefulness of echographic study].

Purpose: In the cranial humeral end, osteochondral injuries localize in a circular crown including part of the humeral head and part of the major and minor tuberosities. Since this region is easy to depict with US, we investigated the potentials of this technique in detecting osteochondral injuries.

Materials And Methods: Seventy-five osteochondral injuries found at 492 US examinations performed in 12 months with a 7.

[Short stature due to a partial idiopathic deficiency of the growth hormone. The role of the TW2 method in assessing treatment with r-hGH].

The Tanner-Whitehouse 2 (TW2) method to assess skeletal maturation (reviewed by Nicoletti for the Italian population) was used to study, from January, 1991, to December, 1994, a series of 26 Italian patients. The patients, 18 men (69.3%) and 8 women (30.